WILLMAR PUBLIC LIBRARY

WILLMAR, MINNESOTA

The original Willmar Public Library, built in 1966, was part of the government campus in the downtown area. Architecturally, the issue of the addition’s perceived presence is resolved with seamless fluidity, by way of replicating and repeating the existing building’s featured wall elements throughout the addition’s main level. An aluminum and glass window links them with each other and emerges as both a new second story and a circular entry element. This palette of contrasting materials defines an architecture that speaks, at once, of a delicate balance between old and new and “reinterpretation,” as a singular, clear vision.