But over that, organic layers of sinuous drywall and slotted plywood define and separate the spaces. You can still see some of the exposed wood framing and rough brick of the former factory space. It’s gorgeous, and it packs a lot of architecture into its small (6,565 s.f.) footprint. Well, the library opened for real last month, and it’s even better than we’d hoped. It was almost too cool for an institution. The graphics manage to look utterly fresh and modern, while harkening back to the painted brick billboards of the industrial age. Not to mention the awesome supergraphics: huge white letters on an orange field run irreverently across both brick wall and windows. Could Dumbo actually get its own public library? BPL hadn’t added a new branch in almost forty years. What a thrill this summer to spot the giant “LIBRARY” painted across the façade of 9 Adams Street.
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