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Surrey City Centre Library
Surrey City Centre Library
Surrey, Canada
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Surrey City Centre Library
Surrey, Canada
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2011
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
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The new Surrey City Centre Library marks the next phase of a major civic investment in transformation of downtown Surrey. With advances in easily available electronic information, the role of libraries is changing and the book collection is no longer the central focus. The building design evolved out of the need to provide a space for reading, studying, and above all, gathering as a community. The library features large windows, a welcoming entrance with clear sight lines that allow visitors to quickly orient themselves in the space, and an upward winding central atrium and two skylights that allow natural light into the building. The form of the building is inspired by the curvature of the adjacent street, with an added dynamism provided by outward-sloping walls. Utilizing state of the art computer modeling software, BTA was able to ensure that the concrete formwork was highly efficient and easy to construct. Additionally, the exterior concrete structure was carefully detailed as the final surface, thereby eliminating the need for expensive building cladding. Designed to LEED standards, the outward sloped walls also provide solar shading. Together with the Surrey librarians, BTA developed a social media strategy using blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr to engage the community in the design of the building, encouraging the public to post comments and photos, thereby making the City Centre Library arguably the first public building in the world to be designed with the aid of social media. At 82,000 sq. ft., the library is equipped with the latest in technology, including over 80 public computers and access to wireless service. It also features a large children’s library, a coffee shop and quiet and group study areas.
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