Renovating History
Lutnick Library, Haverford (Pa.) College
Five additions to Lutnick Library, completed from 1864 to 1967, had buried the building’s historic core, creating a dark and disorienting facility. Selective demolition and new construction generated a new space that respects the building’s history and added warm, contemporary learning areas, including a reading room, a digital scholarship commons, an art gallery, a café, and a research room, as well as climate-controlled storage for the library’s Quaker and other special collections.
Project: Renovation and expansion
Architect: Perry Dean Rogers Partners Architects
Size: 63,700 square feet
Cost: $35.2 million
Photo: Chuck Choi