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Hennepin
County Plymouth Library
Hennepin
County Plymouth Library recently celebrated it's grand opening for the
community. Among the sustainable features of this new state-of-the-art
library are a "green roof", daylight harvesting, geothermal
heating/cooling and on site storm water treatment. Overall, access
to technology, staff efficiency and "people space" are emphasized,
resulting in a library that accommodates the needs of a diverse and
multi-generational population.
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Hennepin
County Eden Prairie Library
Eden Prairie Library started it's
life as a "big box" super market. Hennepin County purchased the building
intent on converting it into a new state-of-the-art library facility.
BTR was enlisted to combine our library expertise with our design focus
to aid in this effort.
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Winona State
University Main Library
The new 108,000
square foot "Library of the Future" at Winona State University was
designed to accommodate the new and changing technologies of the
information age, enabling students to access information in all available
formats and media. As patterns of study shift to more group collaboration
and cross-disciplinary research, the library will be flexible and adaptive
to the unknowns of the future.
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CLARE BOOTHE LUCE LIBRARY
The
state-of-the-art monastic library sits in a prominent location on the
cloister of the monastery, forming a link to the Luce Gardens to the
west, a separation of pathways between the monks and visitors, and a
dramatic bridge-like appearance the reinforces the northwest edges of
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