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DLR Group's Interior Design Leader Gretchen Holy, Assoc. IIDA, shares the idea that a designer's responsibility to embrace a library’s history, respect its past, and create an environment that will serve student populations for the next 100 years.
In Newark, N.J., the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) has broken grown on the three-year, $336 million redevelopment of its 12-acre campus. The project will provide downtown Newark 350 mixed-income residential units, along with shops, restaurants, outdoor gathering spaces, and an education and community center with professional rehearsal spaces.
When it’s completed in 2025, the Delacorte Theater in New York will be more accessible and operationally efficient.
A new permanent home for Hudson Valley Shakespeare, a professional non-profit theater company, recently broke ground in Garrison, N.Y. The Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center includes a 14,850 sf performance venue that will serve as a permanent home for the theater company known for its sweeping open-air productions of classics and new works.
The building, nestled in a large park, is striving to meet three different sustainability standards.
It features larger gathering spaces and more technology than its predecessor.
Its exterior design reflects the neighborhood’s industrial history, while its interior fosters community and shared learning.
The San Antonio City Council voted 9-2 in favor of the makeover.
Comfort and service are keys to attracting repeat customers, says an expert whose firm specializes in cinema design.
Further evidence of the positive impact of the cultural centers on neighborhood development and economic growth can be found in Buffalo, N.Y., where plans for the Italian Cultural Center are moving forward.
New cultural centers have sparked development in the form of new offices, restaurants, retail, hotels, business incubators, apartments, and arenas.
The 26,000-sf facility will be green, resilient, and emphasize the view rather than the architecture.
Beyond lending books and DVDs, the Elkridge (Md.) branch library loans household tools like ladders, wheelbarrows, and sewing machines.
Morphosis designed the building.
