
Book Smart
Our Civic Specialist Group has participated in the design of 40 libraries, ranging from small facilities within schools and neighborhood branches to technologically advanced main libraries up to 11 stories and 412,000 square feet. We are skilled at renovations, expansions, complex upgrades, and entirely new structures and understand the design importance of these facilities to a community’s identity and culture. Our approach incorporates 3-D modeling tools to aid in building sequencing and site visualization and state-of-the-art noninvasive solutions for historic modernizations and expansions.
Featured Library Projects
MKA’s design of the Seattle Central Library, a groundbreaking "library of the future," features the world’s first "book spiral" for efficient, contiguous collection expansion.