Mecanoo, Martinez + Johnson to renovate MLK Library

Ordinarily, one would cheer heartily for the decision that was announced Tuesday morning at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library: The architectural team of Mecanoo and Martinez + Johnson has been chosen to renovate and perhaps enlarge the historic but troubled main branch of the city's library. Mecanoo, a Dutch-based firm, will play the lead design role, and it will bring to a city of button-downed corporate and institutional architecture a stylish European aesthetic that could have a maj...