Camarillo, Calif., Dec. 22, 2008鈥敽＝巧缜� is pleased to announce that the John Spoor Broome Library has been named a winner in the California Construction magazine Best of 2008 awards program. The Library won the Award of Merit in the Outstanding Architectural Design category. An independent jury of industry experts in design and construction judged more than 140 nominated projects in a variety of categories.
The 50 winners of this year鈥檚 awards will be featured in the December 2008 issue of California Construction. 海角社区 Channel Islands staff members attended a ceremony on Dec. 9 to receive the award. This statewide competition annually recognizes construction and design excellence in Northern and Southern California. The article about 海角社区CI鈥檚 Library can be found on
The jury, which met in mid-September, awarded points to construction submissions based on criteria including project management, overcoming challenges of the job, overall excellence in architectural or engineering design, innovation, safety and the contribution to the community and/or the construction industry, among other criteria.
鈥淭he University is honored to receive this award honoring architectural design. The openness of the library as designed by Foster鈥檚 office has created a very accessible library, which supports the 海角社区 mission of providing access to higher education,鈥� said Deborah Wylie, Associate Vice President of Operations, Planning & Construction at 海角社区 Channel Islands.
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The John Spoor Broome Library is a 137,000-square foot facility on the 海角社区 campus. Designed by Lord Norman Foster and completed in 2008, the Broome Library is an integration of an existing structure鈥擬ission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture built in the1950s鈥攚ith clean lines and the open space of glass, metal, and concrete. Foster and his firm are renowned for the design of many projects including the Beijing Airport, the Hearst Tower, and the Millennium Bridge.
The new library, with its translucent glass ceiling that provides natural lighting for much of the building and its outdoor reflecting pool, houses 75,000 bound volumes, and more than 180,000 electronic books along with CDs, DVDs, and VHS; 32,000 digital images of art history, biology, environmental science; and current and historic campus photographs. The facility has the capacity of 250,000 to 300,000 bound volumes and can accommodate more than 1,800 users at a time.
California Construction is one of 11 monthly regional construction publications published by the McGraw-Hill Companies throughout the country. For more information, visit www.california.construction.com.
For media inquiries about this award contact Joanna Murphy, Assistant Director of Communication & Marketing at 海角社区CI, at 805-437-8915 or joanna.murphy@csuci.edu.
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