Comments on: Silver Spring Library Designs

By: DC Metrocentric » Groundbreaking: Silver Spring Library

DC Metrocentric » Groundbreaking: Silver Spring Library — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:49:15 +0000

[…] of today, ground is officially broken in Silver Spring on the huge new Lukmire Partnership designed library. The interesting massive glass design is intended to, in the words of the architect “glow […]

By: DC Metrocentric » Year In Review: 2009

DC Metrocentric » Year In Review: 2009 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:52:15 +0000

[…] about it, 2009 might end up being “the year of the library” as more than a handful of neighborhoods got newly designed bastions to reading, some we liked more than […]

By: Alexa W.

Alexa W. — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:26:56 +0000

It does not look like an inviting library, and why is it so big? I don’t realize that Silver Spring needed such a large facility, which looks bigger than any library in DC or surrounding areas. It better have more than just books in there, is there some type of theater or performance space?

By: Thayer-D

Thayer-D — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:57:53 +0000

If only proportion and balance where motivating themes. More like shock and awe!

By: Steven Sorrel

Steven Sorrel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:52:20 +0000

Rick to say you don’t “think anyone else thinks it looks off-balance” is dead wrong, the thing looks crazy out of proportion and balance!

By: tsarchitect

tsarchitect — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:22:24 +0000

Thayer, putting aside the fact that modernism doesn’t exist any more, that you don’t know what the designers were thinking, and that nothing about a cantilever is untrue or necessarily shocking, it will still be a boon to the street.

By: Thayer-D

Thayer-D — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:32:21 +0000

I think the architects wanted the cantilever to look shocking, like “how the hell is this thing standing” type shocking. Oh how far have the modernists desended from their “truth in architecture” battle cry. As for beautiful, it’s clearly in the eye of the beholder. While not my cup of tea, it looks more like a wanna-be starchitect building. Hack-city!

By: tsarchitect

tsarchitect — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:07:49 +0000

YA SRSLY!

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:46:54 +0000

Seriously, tsarchitect? It’s a beautiful building…the “pod” is integral and I don’t think anyone else thinks it looks off-balance.

By: tsarchitect

tsarchitect — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:19:49 +0000

It’s odd, the cantilever on the corner would be a lot less shocking if that entrance pod on the side didn’t exist. Instead of looking exciting, it looks kind of off-balance. The prior incarnations, though less beautiful, didn’t have that effect.