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HOW IT’S COATED
SPECIAL ISSUE ON ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
The New York City Library’s ‘Wizard Hat’ Coated with Fluropon® Patina Green by Sherwin-Williams Coil Coatings The Stavros Niarchos Foundation library’s Patina Green colour and “wizard hat” shape create new icon respecting historic design of former department store.
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he Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library in New York City
Mecanoo of the Netherlands and Beyer Blinder Belle of New York
transforms the skyline of Midtown Manhattan by vertically
designed the repurposed 1914 property for The New York Public Library
expanding an historic building and creatively updating a former
(NYPL). NYPL moved into the building in 1970 and modestly renovated
department store. The award-winning project is pursuing LEED Silver
the interior 1978. Minimal changes to the existing space were made in
certification and welcomes all to the only free, publicly accessible roof
more than four decades.
terrace in the area.
Expanded upward from six to seven stories, the 180,000-square-foot
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