Vancouver: A library for the future: Bing Thom’s design for Central City site ‘raises the bar’
Surrey’s new City Centre Library will be an extension of the home, its architect said Thursday.
“It’s a community room. It just happens to store books,” Bing Thom told The Province.
Vancouver architect Thom was scheduled to talk about the library Thursday night at an event at the Simon Fraser University Surrey campus.
The 77,000-square-foot building — which is under construction and scheduled to be finished in spring 2011 — takes inspiration from “hugely successful” Central City, which Thom’s firm designed almost 10 years ago to meld an existing shopping mall with office space and a university campus.
The library features big windows, grand staircases, plenty of room to move around and a centre atrium that cuts through all four floors. Thom said it has been described as looking like a cruise ship or a carved First Nations box.
“[The design] evolves out of the natural need of the site and the function that comes with the library,” Thom said. “The building is designed to be very flexible.”
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