This year marks the City of West Hollywood 25th year of cityhood. Since the City’s incorporation in 1984, West Hollywood has established itself as one of the most progressive and innovative cities in the country. In celebration of this landmark, the city has embarked upon a new capital improvement project to develop world-class public facilities, parks and open space, asserting the city's dynamic legacy.
Projects are already underway, and specifically, the development of the new West Hollywood Library on San Vicente (across from the PDC) has really started taking shape. The forthcoming MDA Johnson Favaro-designed library will be a 43,000 square foot, three-story project, that will house the library, sidewalk cafe, public meeting rooms, and circuit party convention rooms (just kidding.) It's scheduled to be finished in 2012.
"The design’s square volume and white, smooth facade of cured limestone plaster may evoke Le Corbusier’s masterpiece, but undulations in the lustrous surface will imbue it with lightness and movement, making it tranquil rather than monolithic." (via la.curbed)
Highlight of the Library: Extensive LGBT Collection; International Languages Collection; Decorative Arts and Design area; a vast collection of large-print materials for Seniors and people who are visually-impaired and a West Hollywood Room which will feature archival materials showcasing the City’s history. Not to mention, the new Library is designed to achieve LEED certification to be a certified "Green Building.”
Next time you're gonna get your Abbey on, look out for all the exciting changes in West Hollywood!
-S
... OMG, I can only imagine what the opening party's gonna be like.
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