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"This is not your traditional warehouse for books." Austin Central Library, Lake-Flato and Shelpey Bulfinch, architects.(Lake-Flato Architect / Casey Dunn) They also wanted to take advantage of ...
In Austin, the new library doubles the book capacity of the previous central library, but books are not the focus of the architecture. For years, the library typology has been morphing into a more ...
(An architect even designed a customized ... 2pm: Meet Artist Lance Letscher, Second Floor Gallery The Austin collage artist is featured in the Central Library Gallery's first exhibition, "Lance ...
It’s going to take another $1.3 million to complete Austin’s massive new central library to continue paying architects for work. That will now extend six months past the original completion ...
Austin Public Library Director Brenda Branch was summarizing the goal that planners were maintaining as they spent the last several years conceptualizing what will become the new Central Library ...
The Austin American-Statesman reports the new Austin Central Library is ... Ahead of the library’s Saturday grand opening, a tour with architect David Lake, Austin Public Library Foundation ...
The architects behind the Austin Central Library won for their "desire to be good stewards of water resources in an area of Texas that regularly experiences drought," the AIA jury said.
AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin's Architecture & Planning Library will soon have a new name honoring a pioneer in the architecture world. John Chase, a Black student ...
John Chase was a man of firsts. Chase was the first licensed African American architect in the U.S. South. He was also the first Black member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and the first ...