Adjaye Associates’ $41.7 million Winter Park Library and Events Centre in Florida has opened.
The project, a public-private partnership with the City of Winter Park, consists of three separate pavilions located on the Martin Luther King Jr Park.
It combines a two-storey library, an events centre with a rooftop terrace and entrance portico, with all three clad in a rose-coloured concrete.
Adjaye Associates said the campus is envisaged as a ‘micro-village’ and cultural hub that embodies the values of the park’s namesake, providing a space for “community empowerment and edification”.
It replaces a former library and civic centre buildings, providing a 30% youth collection and 50% more meeting space.
The library is supported by four timber-lined cores which frame an open-plan layout, featuring an indoor auditorium, education spaces and an entrepreneurship center.
All exterior materials used in the scheme are registered in Florida, with all pre-cast facade materials sourced with 25 miles of the site.
