Norcross Library

A library on the park The public library is first and foremost a place; the family room of a community. Positioned between a pocket park and a well-traveled highway, the LEED library’s design strives to create a welcoming environment, embracing the landscape and maximizing connection to the outdoors.

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The Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Arts Center

Community Center Combining the warmth of a community public library with the ambitions of a state-of-the-art center for cultural arts, the 31,000-square-foot facility creates a place of civic importance and social engagement—one that prompts intellectual curiosity and creativity, while reinforcing a local identity.

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LaGrange Memorial Library

The Troup-Harris Regional Library has announced plans to renovate the LaGrange Memorial Library in LaGrange, GA. Once completed, the new facility will be the seventh version of the library to provide services to the LaGrange community since being established in 1921, when the LaGrange Woman’s Club opened and operated the first public library in the…

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Hooper-Renwick Library

As part of a joint effort with Gwinnett County and the City of Lawrenceville, the 1940’s era building was saved to preserve the school’s legacy. A new exhibit unfolds the rich and often untold history of the only facility that African-American students from across Gwinnett County attended until desegregation occurred in the late 1960’s. The…

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The transformation of a former school supply five and dime (ca. 1914) responds to the building’s past as an alley. Interior forms and structure are arranged to frame views of the courthouse to the front and provide glimpses “passing thru” to a new courtyard in the back. A new walnut wood stripe inserted in the…

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