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Playa Vista Park

Where Howard Hughes once flew, Michael Maltzan has designed a park that connects a new mixed-use development with the site's colorful history.

Sarah Amelar

May 16, 2011

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On land once inhabited by native Tongva people and, centuries later, by the Hughes Aircraft Company, the planned community of Playa Vista is gradually rising on Los Angeles’s West Side.

Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion

Marlon Blackwell creates a carefully sited building that is both a retreat from and an extension of the woods around it.

Cheryl Kent

May 16, 2011

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As commissions go, only the folly offers an architect more liberty than the pavilion.

Portola Branch Library

March 16, 2011

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A single-story, 6,300-square-foot public library on a residential street, with stacks and periodicals along the south wall and a children's room, a program room, and staff offices along the north.

Sunrise Mountain Library

Jenna M. McKnight

March 16, 2011

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In the political realm, Phoenix generally toes the conservative line.

The Westmeath County Buildings and Library, in the town of Mullingar, express the ambitious political and social agenda that held sway in Ireland in the first decade of the 21st century, before the country’s economic bubble collapsed.

William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library

March 16, 2011

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A seven-level, 306,000-square-foot library at Ohio State University, with a central tower of stacks bounded by two atria.

Anacostia Library by The Freelon Group

Washington, D.C.

Suzanne Stephens

March 16, 2011

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In recent years, the District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) has embarked on a program of building architecturally noteworthy facilities in a variety of Washington neighborhoods.

Battery Park City Library by 1100 Architect

New York City

Jane Kolleeny

March 16, 2011

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About 40 years ago, bedrock and dirt were excavated to build the World Trade Center in New York's Lower Manhattan.

Bloor/Gladstone Branch Library

March 16, 2011

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A three-level public library that extends the original neoclassical library building from 1912 with a 12,000-square-foot addition, for a total of 25,000 square feet.

Ingleside Branch Library

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

March 16, 2011

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As a tagline, “building better libraries for stronger communities” might be a little trite, but it does sum up San Francisco’s ambitions for its branch-improvement program — an ongoing building campaign funded in part by a $105.9 million bond passed by city voters in 2000.