The Contemporary Architecture, Princeton University’s high-tech Peter B. Lewis Science Library, a multistory 87,000 sq ft building that will house Princeton’s science collections, in addition to providing classrooms, offices, and public space, the Science Library will house the Biology, Chemistry, Geo sciences and Map/GIS print collections, and will provide facilities for the New Media Lab, the Educational Technology Center, and the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering. The building is located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States and designed by world-renowned architects, the Contemporary American Architect, Gehry Partners LLP. The angular steel, glass brick and stucco library is a signature Gehry building, conceived by a legendary creative mind and crafted by the most advanced digital design tools available to today’s practicing architects.

The Science Library’s mission to further the advancement of learning at Princeton University extends to the provision of a wide variety of electronic resources, including catalogs, indexes, reference tools, full text electronic books, electronic journals, numeric data, digital maps and images.

Frank O. Gehry utilized Catia software to model the shapes of the building and to inform the shape of such signature touches as the wavy- lined canary yellow welcome desk. The building is accented with bold colors inside and out. Standing in the library’s highest level, visitors are treated to alternating glimpses of color outside every window- shades of green, purple and orange. A colorful assortment of deep blue, green, yellow and black desk chairs complete the group study and seminar rooms while angular grey tables and chairs finish out the reading areas and common spaces.

Gehry hopes the bold lines of the library will serve as inspiration for the groups it houses. Scientists who are focused on complex issues may find that the abstract landscape of the building will stimulate their imagination and perhaps inspire them to think outside the box”, Gehry said.

The building will anchor a new precinct on Princeton’s East Campus that will include modern structures by Hopkins, Menn and Vinoly.

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