North Regional Library

Design Challenge:

Provide a new public library in an area traditionally underserved yet currently growing in population.  Design the site and building to appeal to a small-town aesthetic while providing for new and modern public spaces and provisions for future building growth.

Design Solutions:

Using Best Practices and guided by library design consultant, Denelle C. Wrightson A.I.A., NCARB, LEED AP of Dewberry, the building is designed as a simple brick structure with feature areas of cement plaster including a classically designed front portico.  We borrowed exterior forms from significant public buildings of the immediate area and added the unique touches of a kaleidoscope tower room for children and a genealogy research area for adults.