2012 Interior Design Best of Year Institutional: Library Honoree ALA IIDA 2012 Interior Design AwardThe Julian Street Library, a newly renovated library in a
1960s modernist building at Princeton University, transforms a 3100 SF reading
room into a state-of-the art multimedia learning environment. Situated between
a residential college and the main campus center, the library acts as a hub for
undergraduate students on their way to the central campus. Recognizing that
with the advent of digital technologies libraries are multipurpose spaces that
sponsor study and social interaction, our design reconceives the refurbished
library as a wired environment where students can work, lounge, and socialize
day and night.