LEED Certified Libraries: Platinum & Gold Projects Margot Hanson Manoa Public Library Eco-Charrette 1 March, 2007

LEED Library Projects Platinum: Lake View Terrace, Los Angeles Gold: Sun Valley, Los Angeles North Sarasota, Florida Hillsdale, Portland

Platinum:

Lake View Terrace, Los Angeles

Gold:

Sun Valley, Los Angeles

North Sarasota, Florida

Hillsdale, Portland

Lake View Terrace Branch, Los Angeles Public Library LEED Platinum Certified Photo credit: RMA Photography, Inc. Light shelves, overhangs, and louvers mediate daylight in the library reading room. Text: American Institute of Architects

Lake View Terrace Entrance Photo credit: RMA Photography, Inc. Community room facilities at the left. Passive cooling tower and environmental awareness center at the entry plaza. The trellis glazed with photovoltaic panels fronts the reading room wing.

Community room facilities at the left.

Passive cooling tower and environmental awareness center at the entry plaza.

The trellis glazed with photovoltaic panels fronts the reading room wing.

Lake View Terrace & Bike Racks Photo credit: RMA Photography, Inc. Bicycle parking at the end of the entry plaza will be shaded by native Western Sycamore trees.

Lake View Terrace Interior Photo credit: RMA Photography, Inc. Bamboo flooring marks the entry to the main reading room at the circulation desk. Fins, overhangs, and the entry trellis protect the west windows set low in the block walls.

Bamboo flooring marks the entry to the main reading room at the circulation desk.

Fins, overhangs, and the entry trellis protect the west windows set low in the block walls.

Lake View Terrace Stacks Photo credit: RMA Photography, Inc. Library reading room seating areas are located by windows. Light shelves at the south windows (at right) bounce light into the ceiling vault. Panels set between FSC-certified glu-lam beams temper acoustics in the room.

Library reading room seating areas are located by windows.

Light shelves at the south windows (at right) bounce light into the ceiling vault.

Panels set between FSC-certified glu-lam beams temper acoustics in the room.

Lake View Terrace Children's Area Photo credit: RMA Photography, Inc. A lowered ceiling, a small-scaled arc of bench, and a bookshelf make the children’s story amphitheatre.

Sun Valley Branch, Los Angeles Public Library LEED Gold Certified Photo from US Green Building Council-LA

North Sarasota Public Library, Florida LEED Gold Certified Photo from Sarasota County Library

North Sarasota Library Kids’ Zone Photo from R. George & Associates, Inc.

North Sarasota Reading Room Photo from R. George & Associates, Inc.

Hillsdale Library, Multnomah County, Portland, OR LEED Gold Certified Photo from Multnomah County Library

Hillsdale Library Skylight Photo from Multnomah County Library

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