After a nearly one-year search, the library on Thursday announced that it had picked Foster, of the London-based Foster + Partners, and the recipient of 1999’s Pritzker Prize, to helm a $250 million renovation of the lion-fronted Beaux-Arts building, which sits on Fifth Avenue.
Though details of the plan are scarce, Foster’s main task is to reconfigure a seven-floor space on the western edge of the building, where books are now stored, into one with multiple reading rooms for patrons, plus a circulating collection, so people can check out books; they have not been able to do this since 1970.
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