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Architects to Draft Designs for Philadelphia Free Library FaceliftPhiladelphia Free Library President and Director Elliot Shelkrot announced September 8 that the library has commissioned four prominent architectural firms to come up with designs for a $100-million expansion and renovation of the 1927-era Beaux Arts main branch that will transform it into a modern media center. The library will make a choice after the architects present their ideas at a public forum October 22, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported September 9.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. |
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