Steven Holl Architects - Hunter's Point Community Library

Situated along the banks of the East River in Long Island City, New York’s Hunter's Point Community Library is the result of a seven-year effort by Steven Holl Architects. Nearing completion as of 2017, the library will bring community-devoted space to the increasingly privatized Long Island City waterfront. Library, a Social Condenser traces the history of the library’s development and the uncompromising fight to keep the realized structure true to its original conception―that of a social catalyst in the midst of dense, high-rise structures