Kew Gardens Hills Library Queens, New York City Architecture Project, Pictures, Architect
Kew Gardens Hills Library Building, Queens
NY Building Expansion & Renewal – design by WORK Architecture Company (WORKac)
19 Oct 2017
Kew Gardens Hills Library Building in Queens
Design: WORK Architecture Company
Address: 71-34 Main Street, Flushing, NY 11367
Phone: (718) 261-6654
New York, NY?WORKac has completed its new branch library in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. The building has been a long time in the making.

Initially commissioned by Queens Library through NYC?s Department of Design and Construction in 2008, the library was among the first bevy of projects announced under DDC?s Design + Construction Excellence Program, which since 2005 has directed selected civic projects to leading design firms. The much-awaited library opened to the public on September 6.
The library was already a key institution in the diverse community of Kew Gardens Hills, and it boasts some of the best attendance and circulation figures of any library nationwide. Community members? dedicated advocacy was pivotal in supporting a design that has provided the library with needed facilities and has given it a physical presence in keeping with institution?s importance.

Kew Gardens Hills Library Building images : WORK Architecture Company
The project began as the renovation and 3,000-square-foot expansion of an existing Lindsey library from 1966. Its volume is still visible in the completed librar...