![]() ![]() This sense of discovery extends into the Children’s Room, which will have an early childhood area with toys and board books, and regular programming. Magazines are displayed in a terraced reading area that has couch seating and tables, while the stacks on the levels above have seating along long wooden countertops.įour nautical portals around the Hunters Point Library are Percent for Art installations by Juilanne Swartz, called “Four Direction from Hunters Point” that show a distorted view of the Manhattan skyline and surrounding Long Island City area. There will be 50,000 books, movies, magazines, newspapers, audiobooks and albums at the Hunters Point Library, including large selections in Chinese and Spanish for the local community. ![]() The interior is in a two-color palette of bamboo wood and silver/gray, with the books intended to pop amidst the simple and soothing color scheme. It was meant to uplift the citizenry and while this building is very different from a traditional Carnegie, it is an aspirational civic structure for this century.” Clearly moved, Van Bramer calls the new Hunters Point Library “probably the single most important project of my life.” The building will also be LEED Silver certified for its environmental sustainability measures - something that can be attributed to NYC’s Department of Design and Construction’s Bloomberg-era initiative, Design and Construction Excellence, that aimed to improve the quality of public projects. Library design, even back to the Carnegie days was very aspirational. Bramer said yesterday, “One of the things that I feel so good about, that all of us stuck to, was to have an architecturally significant library that is a good as the people of Queens and is aspirational. The idea for a library here was first advocated by local community members in 1988 who formed a committee to push the cause with local officials.This project is particularly meaningful to Councilmember Jimmy van Bramer, who has seen this project from genesis to completion, beginning when he worked at the Queens Library from 1999 to 2009. ![]()
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