As you peer through the elegantly glazed vestibule of the new 53rd Street Library in Manhattan, instead of book-lined shelves, you see a large amphitheater with expansive wood tiers. Edged on one side by a stairway, it spills exuberantly down from the back of the street-level lobby to the floor below. This mostly underground facility, designed by TEN Arquitectos (Taller de Enrique Norten), is quietly tucked into the east end of a faceted glass and black-aluminum-paneled, 50-story Baccarat Hotel and Residences by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which opened last year.
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