The Woburn Public Library sponsored this ideas competition in the winter of 2008 to generate concepts for an addition to its historic library designed by H.H. Richardson in 1877.
The library has outgrown its space and needs to be expanded and renovated to serve as Woburn's community center in the 21st century. Entries were to investigate how to add 25,000sf of program to a historic structure that does not easily lend itself to addition.