My hometown, Brooklyn, NY, is hoping to build a library like none other on Flatbush Avenue…a state-of-the-art library of the Visual and Performing Arts. Trouble is, they say they need $85 million to get it up and running. So far, $18 million has been raised.
Reporter Charles Hack, of the Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Courier (the local rag) says that when the library opens we may in fact be greeted by a librarian in a leotard if the money is raised and the plans are carried out.
Shaped like a ship’s bow, but of glass and steel, the building is designed for energy efficiency and as a symbol of the new millennium. Architect Enrique Norten says “We live in a lighhter world and a world that is more transparent, more democratic, and freer. I think it is important that we represent that in our architecture.”
More on this hoped-for miracle on Flatbush Avenue…not only a library, but an “opportunity to transform the cultural district of downtown Brooklyn” from The Brooklyn Paper.
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