Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Agave Library
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Agave Library
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Alternate Title:
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Agave Branch Library
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Image View:
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Raking view of south side of the building, sidewalk overlooking xeriscaped gardens
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Creator:
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Will Bruder + Partners (American architectural firm, 1995-2012)
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Location:
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site: Glendale, Arizona, United States
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Location Note:
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23550 N. 36th Avenue; Glendale is suburb just west of Phoenix, also in Maricopa County
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GPS:
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+33.699485-112.139873
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Date:
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2009 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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library (building)
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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concrete masonry; steel; glass
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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25,405 ft2 (area)
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Description:
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The design of this 25,405 sq. ft. branch library for the City of Phoenix addresses issues of affordability in sustainable design. Located within a Planned Shopping Center in north Phoenix behind a gas station, car wash, fast food restaurant, and supermarket, the Library?s construction and material pallet quietly draws from the language of its retail neighbors. The Library?s ""false front"" (a 56 ft. galvanized metal scrim curving along the site?s eastern edge of 36th Avenue) mediates between its two realities: one of a limited budget, the other of the civic presence expected in a public institution. The metal scrim is much larger than the masonry building behind it. Named one of 10 New Landmark Libraries by Library Journal in 2011. In 2012, the firm dissolved and split; it is now Will Bruder Architects and WORKSBUREAU. (Source: ArchDaily; http://www.archdaily.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Eight
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Identifier:
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1A1-WBP-AL-A50
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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