Drilling holes—for windows, granted—into famed architect Marcel Breuer’s final project could cost $1 million, and preservationists are peeved such plans are still on the drafting board.
But despite community pushback, the window plans are still very much alive.
Tuesday night, a crowd again convened at downtown’s Central Atlanta Library, a Breuer-designed Brutalist building, to argue against aspects of the $50 million plan to renovate the 38-year-old structure.
— Curbed Atlanta
To drill or not to drill—that's at the center of a heated debate between the Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System, who would like to see additional windows to bring some natural light into their aging Marcel Breuer-designed Central Atlanta Library building, and preservationists, who insist that the concrete shell of the brutalist structure from 1980 must not be altered.
"What we’ve always heard about this building is it’s dark; it’s dingy; it’s dank, and the windows are a way to enliven this," Atlanta library director Gabriel Morley said about the building that once faced demolition not too long ago. "It’s a way to bring some inside out and some outside in."
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Library remuddle cliche checklist:
1) Put glass storefront everywhere for that fishbowl look.
2) Reduce the number of books available, make more room for computers.
3) Simplistic primary color schemes for the carpets and paint.
4) Weird looking LED pendant lights placed here and there.
5) Put weird looking neo-midcentury furniture in simplistic primary color scheme here and there.
6) Add bleacher seating!
7) Designers blather in the press about how the remuddle made the old library "inviting", "open", and "embracing of new technologies"
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