The makeover, which took a year and a half, covered everything from the 18 chandeliers to the 42 white oak tables, from the bronze table lamps to the three giant murals on the ceiling. It really captures both the wonder of libraries and the wonder of New York City itself. Walking around that room and taking in those views is very cleansing to the mind. It's not a very wealthy community. Teton County Library, Jackson, Wyoming Another Bruder creation, this library is constructed of lodgepole pines, with its reading room in the center where the roof peaks at 25 feet.
Windows look out on wildflowers, aspens and mountains.
It very definitely speaks to what fits in that community and wouldn't fit anywhere else. And it's clearly very much loved by the people who live there. Public Library, Central Branch Reading areas here take advantage of the building's unique design, a rectangle within an ellipse. Reading galleries on separate floors sit within the ellipse but outside the rectangular core. This space is wonderful, and the juxtaposition of the circle and the rectangle is particularly exciting to see.