Whitney Library

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This branch library for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District is organized around three distinct areas: Adult Reading, Young People’s Library, and Performing Arts. All of these areas spin off a central control area which unites the circular form of the young people’s area with the more linear plan of the other areas. Community use is encouraged through a 300 seat public auditorium, an art gallery and a special collections room dedicated to materials relating specifically to the American Southwest. Also included are several private study rooms, meeting rooms and computer rooms. To create an identifiable public image along a major, high speed city artery, the building is brightly colored with an introspective wall canted slightly to the plane of the street. This attracts the eye without using the commercial signs associated with strip shopping. The building incorporates indirect daylight and clerestories to bring natural, protected daylight into the stack and reading areas.