Results for the Architizer A+ Popular Choice Award announced April 14

Raleigh, North Carolina (April 27, 2015) – NC State University’s James B. Hunt Jr. Library received the 2015 Architizer A+ Popular Choice Award for educational libraries in the typology category. Designed in collaboration by the NCSU Libraries, Snøhetta, and Clark Nexsen, the Hunt Library was the only U.S. library named as a finalist.

Finalists were candidates for the Architizer A+ Jury Award, which was selected by a distinguished jury, but public voting determined the Architizer A+ Popular Choice Award. The popular choice award polls were open online at the Architizer A+ Awards website from March 17 to April 3.

Since opening in 2013, the Hunt Library has strengthened NC State University’s position as a leader in innovative education and research. The library offers students and faculty an incubator for new technologies, modes of collaboration, and approaches to learning and research. The library provides access to 35,000 books on open shelving, while an Automated Book Delivery System (ABDS), or bookBot, allows the NCSU Libraries to store up to two million items in one-ninth the space required by traditional shelving. As a result, the majority of its square footage can be devoted to collaborative study rooms, open seating areas, and transformative technology and visualization spaces.

The Architizer A+ Awards winners were announced on April 14, 2015 and will be recognized at a gala in New York City in May, where they will receive a complimentary copy of the annual book of all A+ Award winners, published by Phaidon. Now in its third year, the global architectural awards program recognizes excellence and identifies industry leaders for architecture and design worldwide. While entries were received from more than 100 countries, only five entries in each category were named finalists.

To learn more about the Architizer A+ Awards, please visit http://awards.architizer.com/about/awards/.

About Clark Nexsen
Clark Nexsen is a national architectural and engineering firm providing innovative design solutions to U.S. and global clients. Through collaboration and the development of a wide range of expertise, they believe they can create a better world through their work. Specializing in higher education, Clark Nexsen is ranked among Building Design + Construction’s Top 10 university architecture firms and has been named to the Architect 50 by Architect magazine for the past three consecutive years.

For more information, contact Cat Brutvan at 919.828.1876 or cbrutvan@clarknexsen.com.

About Snøhetta
Snøhetta is an integrated architecture, landscape, interior, branding and design firm based in Oslo and New York. The internationally acclaimed firm has designed some of the world’s most notable public and cultural projects, including the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center in New York City, among many others.

Recent educational, civic, and cultural projects in North America include the expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in California, the Far Rockaway Library in New York City, the Ryerson University Student Learning Centre in Toronto, and the redevelopment of Times Square in New York City.

For more information, email kelly@snohetta.com.

About the NCSU Libraries
The NCSU Libraries is the gateway to knowledge for the North Carolina State University community and partners. The Libraries' collections, people, technologies, and spaces reflect the historic strengths of the University as well as its vision for the future. With extensive research holdings in the areas of engineering, science, technology, and agriculture, paired with cutting-edge technologies for collaboration and innovation, the NCSU Libraries is recognized as a national leader in research libraries.

The NCSU Libraries has been recognized for many national and international awards including the American Library Association (ALA) 2003 “Library of the Future” award, the 2013 AIA/ALA Building Award for the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, the 2014 Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries for the Hunt Library as high-technology research platform, and the LLAMA (ALA) 2014 John Cotton Dana Public Relations Award for Libraries for the opening of the Hunt Library, and the American Libraries’ 2013 Library Design Showcase for the Hunt Library.

For more information, email Patrick Deaton, Associate Director for Learning Spaces and Capital Management at patrick_deaton@ncsu.edu