The group consists of Sir Norman Foster, who created a new Great Court for the British Museum; the Boston-based Moshe Safdie, who designed the recently opened Salt Lake City main library; Mexican architect Enrique Norten, who is building Brooklyn (N.Y.) Public Library’s new visual and performing arts library; and Cesar Pelli, who planned a new central library for Minneapolis.
Shelkrot said he hoped to double the size of the existing facility and add work and storage areas, Internet and audiovisual rooms, a café, an auditorium, and an expanded children’s library.
Mayor John F. Street, who has already committed $30 million in city funds to the project, has told the library that it must raise the balance from other sources, including state and federal funding and private donations.
Posted September 15, 2003.