2005 AIA Alabama Awards

Auburn Library

  • Merit Award

This 28,000 SF, $3.2 million public library was designed for a rapidly growing community that serves as the home of Auburn University. The building has an inviting entrance plaza that reaches out to the public from the major vehicular approach to the building. The façade is punctuated with a rotunda-style entrance element that extends through the interior of the building in the form of a tall, clerestory surrounded atrium lobby. The steel framed structure is wrapped in an attractive multi-colored brick and cast stone, which at night is accented with dramatic lighting to showcase the building as well as the extensive book collection, which is clearly visible to the public from the exterior. In 2005, Williams Blackstock received the Alabama Council of AIA Merit Award for the Auburn Library design.