LIBRARY NOTES
Building Renovation
The Renovation Team
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
The Fifth Floor
prior to the renovation.
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The Fifth Floor today.
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The Library was lucky to have James V. Czajka of JVC Architects, who specializes in buildings for arts and letters, as its architect for this renovation. Some of Czajka's recent projects include the renovation and expansion of the new Playwright Horizons Theater School Studios in the East Village and the Rockwell Museum of Western Art in Corning, New York.
The Library is also fortunate in having two very distinguished architects on its Board of Trustees: Jean Parker Phifer is the Chair of the Library's Building and Renovation Committee and an architect specializing in planning, restoration, and sustainable design projects for cultural institutions, and Byron Bell, also a member of the Building and Renovation Committee, has been designing experimental and cutting-edge public spaces for more than 35 years as senior partner in Bell Larson Architects and Planners.
As a contractor, the Library engaged the services of 30M Construction, whose president, John McBride, was already familiar with the building from the 2006-2007 renovation.
Our indispensible building Superintendant John McKeown not only worked closely with 30M Construction but, with the help of Harry Abarca, kept things running as smoothly as possible in the Library during this disruptive period.
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