District Library Opts for Smaller Main Branch

The District of Columbia Public Library has decided it will need more space than it originally thought in its downtown main branch, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. And that means one possible configuration for its renovation and expansion--a proposal by the architectural team of Mecanoo and Martinez + Johnson to add an oblique three-story addition on top of the modernist box--is no longer on the drawing boards. After assessing the library's needs, the Library board decided that it w...