VSBA

Baker Library, the College’s beloved humanities and social sciences library, has been the center of academic life at Dartmouth College.  The Berry addition doubles the size of the existing facility and accommodates new public functions, technical services, reading areas, a café, and the computing services and History departments.  The original Baker Library building, essentially unchanged […]

VSBA’s challenge was to transform an underutilized building on an important site into an accessible, functional, and visually evocative library for rare books and manuscripts with a secure and carefully controlled environment.  The scope of the renovation included a reading room, study and seminar rooms, offices, and technical support spaces. Our design preserves the monumental […]