This week Heatherwick Studio unveiled preliminary designs for its next major American project, a public library and community center with a “climbable facade,” overlooking Lake Kittamaqundi in the heart of Columbia, Maryland.
The five-level, 100,000-square-foot building, called the Lakefront Library, will be the main library for the planned community of more than 100,000 that was constructed starting in the 1960s by visionary developer James Rouse, founder of The Rouse Company.
(Courtesy Howard County Government)
The library will be built as the result of a collaboration between Howard County, the local government, and the Howard Hughes Corporation, the successor to The Rouse Company as the
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