Cleveland Public Library

Date: 1997 Stokes Wing, 1999 Main Library Restoration
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Size: 525,000 s.f.

The library, one of the largest circulating libraries in the country, responds to an historic urban plan with four marble-clad towers that compliment the adjacent Beaux Arts buildings and yet offset the 10-story glass oval that provides a freshness and openness to the upper reading and stack areas. The design also integrates the beloved Eastman Reading Garden illustrating that effective urbanism is responding to the public by designing a building truly for the public, a place that becomes an integral part of the city by becoming an integral part of the lives of its citizens.