The Pico Branch Library, a recent work by Koning Eizenberg (KE), is the first new public library branch in Santa Monica, California, in nearly 60 years. Its modest predecessor, originally a storefront operation, left the Pico area in 1956, creating what many locals considered a growing void. But by the time Santa Monica addressed that need, decades of transformative digital technologies, as well as neighborhood changes, made the project an unexpected opportunity: a chance to rethink what a 21st-century library could be—particularly as it relates to this community's distinctive character.
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