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The Woolworth Building: The Cathedral of Commerce →

Want to learn more about the iconic Woolworth Building on its 100th birthday? Visit this blog post from one of our librarians at NYPL’s Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy - it contains all the details you never knew! (Well, maybe you knew, but it is chock full of information that you should read it no matter what you knew.)

April 24th sees the one hundredth anniversary of the opening of the Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway. In 1913 the Woolworth Building was the tallest inhabited building in the world, and would remain so until the opening of the Chrysler Building, in 1929. 

Architects & Curators Talk Lincoln Center Redesign April 10 →

Over the past eight years, the interdisciplinary design studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) transformed the fifty-year-old modernist citadel into a porous and democratic campus. The new monograph Lincoln Center Inside Out: An Architectural Account is the first comprehensive document to feature the extensive redevelopment in its entirety. Lincoln Center Inside Out, conceived as a cross between an art book, a scholarly record and an architectural diary, is comprised entirely of gatefolds. The book is a series of inside out spreads, in which the exterior pages of each feature large-format photographs by Iwan Baan and Matthew Monteith, among other acclaimed photographers. Tucked behind these lush photos, is a series of “back stories” that reveal the evolution and unexpected afterlife of the same spaces. 

You all know how excited we are about NYPL’s Central Library Plan and the renderings we released last week. Yesterday, the Daily News shared its opinion - and it’s a winner: 

“A great new chapter

The planned overhaul of the New York Public Library’s iconic midtown building is a winner”

But that’s not all! Take a look at their op-ed and read what else they had to say.

Wednesday we shared the renderings of the Library’s Central Library Plan. Today, the Library opened an exhibition at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building that explains the process of the Central Library Plan, including renderings, details and the above video that provides an animated look inside the space. 

We are extremely excited to share the first-ever look at the inspiring new lending library that will be constructed for the public inside of our historic building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. The project—designed by world-renowned architect Norman Foster and his award-winning firm Foster + Partners—more than doubles the amount of public space, better preserves the Library’s research materials, and creates a truly integrated central library in the heart of New York City serving all people, from scholars and students to toddlers and teens.

We encourage everyone to visit the Library’s dedicated webpage at www.nypl.org/clp to learn more about the plan.

This weekend marks the first Designers & Books Fair, an event “at the intersection where design, architecture, and books meet.” If you’re like us and think this sounds like a fabulous way to spend the weekend, then we’ve got some good news: the Designers & Books Fair is giving NYPL fans a special offer! Click here and enter the code NYPL to get free passes to the exhibition hall, and snag discounted program tickets here.

rebeccabatty:

Study Session.

New York Public Library, 8/27/12

Stairs, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, New York Public Library.

Carrère & Hastings, the architects who designed The New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue at 42nd.

Happy Mustache Monday!

(Source: digitalgallery.nypl.org)

throughmyperspectiveandlens:

The beautiful details of this door @ NYPL