October 26th – Greenpoint Library + Environmental Education Center
Greenpoint Library, Photograph courtesy Marble Fairbanks
Address: 107 Norman Avenue at Leonard St. Brooklyn, NY 11222
Architect: Marble Fairbanks
Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center is a 15,000-square-foot community library and hub for environmental awareness, activism, and education in the Brooklyn Public Library system. Program elements include reading rooms, dry/wet eco-labs, community event space and meeting rooms, staff spaces, and an extensive outdoor space. Landscapes are integrated into the building on three levels—bioswale and rock outcroppings at the street, a reading garden on the second, and a green roof on the third.
