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New Library Project
On
July 25, 2005, the City Council passed the new Mission Hills branch
funding authorization. This assures the initial funding for engaging
the architectural firm of Mosher, Drew, Watson & Ferguson, and beginning
the design work. General Library Use
Also at the November 12 library planning meeting with the architect, the community had the opportunity to meet Cork Marcheschi, the artist selected to create public art for the Mission Hills-Hillcrest Branch Library. Mr. Marcheschi has been a working artist for 23 years both in the public and private realm. His art has been displayed worldwide. Mr. Marcheschi works primarily with light as sculpture, and he is interested in exploring the various ways light, both natural and artificial, is reflected and projected. Mr. Marcheschi is currently working on public projects in the US and Hong Kong. He teaches at the Art Institute in San Francisco and at UC Berkeley. He has been the recipient of several prestigious awards and has had many exhibitions. Architect Selected Architects Mosher Drew Watson Ferguson is very pleased to be collaborating with the community as the Design Architect for the new Mission Hills-Hillcrest Library. The firm's most recently completed city library is the La Jolla-Riford Library which opened in 2004. The fall of 2006, Architects MDWF will be conducting community workshops to discuss the vision and design concepts for this library --- your library. Representing the firm will be: Larry Hoeksema, AIA, President of Architects MDWF and current President of AIA-SD; Don Leonard, AIA, Principal; and Felipe Ricketts, AIA, LEED, Senior Architect.
Here are
some key dates, facts and figures about the new Mission Hills-Hillcrest
Branch Library:
Ways you can be involved:
1. Join the Friends of the Mission Hills-Hillcrest Branch Library. Support the branch library with your time, energy, and financial resources. 2. Attend the design community workshops this fall. 3. Visit Mission Hills Library and one or two of the new libraries in the city. Mission Valley, Point Loma, and La Jolla have recently opened new or enlarged libraries. Start thinking about what you would like to see in our new branch library and be ready to give your input!
An
ambitious, $312.3 million plan that will provide the City of San
Diego with a 21st Century Library System is currently underway.
The 10-year plan calls for building 13 new libraries in the City
and expanding 11 existing libraries.
The heart of the Library Improvement Program is a new, 495,942-square-foot Main Library in the East Village of downtown San Diego. This state-of-the-art facility will be located along the planned Park-to-Bay landscaped promenade that will link Balboa Park with San Diego Bay. The branch libraries will be connected to the Main Library by an online Library catalog and database to share resources, and provide technology and information services to all citizens. The plan calls for new and expanded branch libraries to have a minimum of 15,000 square feet in order to provide meeting rooms, computer labs, separate areas for children and teens, as well as house other amenities of a modern branch library. New Libraries to be Built:
Library Branches to be Expanded:
this page last revised on: May 7, 2007 |
After
many years of planning, meeting with the city, and waiting, a new branch
library at a new site is in the works for Mission Hills-Hillcrest. In
September 2003 the city purchased the lot at the southwest corner of
Washington and Front streets, the site of the old IBEW building. The
city, architects, library staff, and the Friends of the Mission Hills-Hillcrest
Branch Library are in the process of designing a new 15,000 square foot
building on the site, which is planned to include underground parking,
community meeting rooms and gathering places, 21st century technology
infrastructure, and room for lots of books and research materials.