April 23, 2018
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International architect Moshe Safdie designs on the grandest scale: Raffles City in Chongqing, China; Marina Bay Sands in Singapore; and dozens more. Architectural Digest spotlighted 11 iconic Moshe Safdie buildings in 2016. And now the Somerville, Massachusetts-based Safdie Architects is ...
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December 19, 2017
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The architectural team that will be hired later in December to design a new Boise main library will have two basic concepts as a jumping off point. Both concepts propose a 114,000-square-foot library oriented to face the Boise River with ...
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April 6, 2017
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Seventeen years later after planning began, the Library! at Bown Crossing expects to open June 1, or earlier, to give the southeast side of Boise its first library. The library will have 40,000 books, 24 computers, a nook with a ...
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November 16, 2015
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The Boise Public Library has gone mobile with its public computer access at the Main Library. The library on Nov. 6 unveiled a kiosk with a dozen laptops and a dozen iPads that library card holders can check out and ...
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September 21, 2015
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Bown Crossing has waited for 15 years for its own branch library, dating back to Boise’s Master Library Facility Plan from 2000. Those were the days when the Boise Public Library had a single location: the main library downtown. Those ...
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