Project Details
- Project Name
- New Carrollton Library
- Location
- MD
- Architect
- GWWO Architects
- Client/Owner
- Prince George's County Memorial Library System
- Project Types
- Cultural
- Project Scope
- Addition/Expansion
- Size
- 57,960 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2018
- Shared by
- GWWO Inc./Architects
- Consultants
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Civil Engineer: Site Resources, Inc.,General Contractor: Tuckman-Barbee Construction Co., Inc.,Geotechnical Engineer: Kim Engineering, Inc.,Interior Designer: The Studio of Saundra Ragan,Structural Engineer: Faisant Associates, Inc.,Landscape Architect: Site Resources, Inc.,Electrical Engineer: CCJM
- Project Status
- Built
- Cost
- $13,042,000
Project Description
For over 40 years, the New Carrollton Library has been regarded by patrons as a prominent center for learning and community collaboration. This full interior renovation and addition breathes new life into the two-story Brutalist-style structure creating a welcoming, technology-rich facility that reasserts its place as a community anchor and meets the needs of today’s library patrons.
Responding to the dynamic shift of libraries from places of quiet study to vibrant centers of community collaboration, the two-dimensional triangular floor plan transforms into a three-dimensional prism that breaks through the former understated entry, framing the new entrance. Seen from afar, this symbol of enlightenment re-establishes the building as a beacon to the community.
The library’s interior layout responds to the existing triangular configuration that placed major destinations at each of the three apexes: children’s collection, public meeting rooms, and a lobby and café area. In keeping with the design technique, a shifted secondary grid of collection space and study rooms creates an orderly kaleidoscopic effect, radiating around the central social space.
