The new Hunters Point Community Library is a work of civic pride, the kind that one generation builds for the next. JDavidsonNYC writes
Hunters Point Community Library. Photo: Steven Holl Architects The perpetually almost-finished library on the Long Island City waterfront is truly finished now, its opening eagerly awaited by a neighborhood that transformed while the project made its way from the hey-what-if-we stage to the first checkout. Lovely, late, and overpriced, the new Hunters Point Community Library, designed by Steven Holl Architects, has already become an equivocal lesson in what, and how well, the city can build.
Step inside, and the building changes character. A lot of architects design for that first contact, bedazzling the eye with the illusion of movement. Holl’s no slouch in the drama department, but he’s not one to give away the whole show in one ta-dah. The interior unfolds slowly, like a good yarn. A pathway of stairs and ramps works its way up and around the central void, through a luminous landscape clad in blond bamboo.
It’s a truism that today’s libraries are more than just repositories of bound volumes. They are places to learn languages, register to vote, apply for jobs and colleges, get online, and take refuge from wintry weather or stormy homes. The Hunters Point library is prepared for those roles, but along with the free Wi-Fi and the outlets and the comfy furniture, it also still has … books.
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