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LINC
Greeley, Colorado
Located on the block of 6th Street and 8th Avenue of downtown Greeley, the LINC will extend the downtown and become a hub of activity for the High Plains Library District. In keeping with the theme of confluence and the importance of water in the region, the exterior perforated metal screen is inspired by the northern Colorado watershed district.
LocationGreeley, Colorado
ClientHigh Plains Library District
TypeLibrary, Cultural
CategoryMultigenerational, Renovation, Other, Current
Square Footage42,000 renovation
22,000 expansion
Completion2023
Partners
GH Phipps
Construction camera
Before
After
Named after the newspaper publisher and co-founder of the Union Colony, Horace Greeley, the Greeley Tribune building was built in 1986. Custom built for their needs as their second newspaper headquarters, totaling 42,000 square feet, it housed offices, journalists, printing presses, and distribution.
Before
After
Through a people-inspired process the themes of transformation, confluence, and discovery shaped our design thought. Inspired by the nearby intersection of the Cache la Poudre River and the South Platte River, the lobby represents the confluence as the meeting point between the library, the innovation hall, and the children’s museum while figuratively it represents the coming together of people and ideas in a new public building.
News print press becomes the innovation lab
Rooftop view of the Tribune atrium
Shops connect with downtown
Greeley City Hall
Nettleton-Mead House
Lincoln Park
8th Street Plaza
Newspaper kiosks outside the Tribune
Activated alleyway
Greeley Stampede
Freedom to just be
The original Greeley Tribune
Horace Greeley
The book (and the topic) that inspired us
Confluence inspired the lobby circulation
A river of books flows through the stacks
Process
A 22,000 square foot addition will wrap the original building transforming it into a community center that includes a library, innovation center, events space, classrooms, and a children's museum. Floor plans show how a newspaper press becomes an innovation center, how packaging becomes the children's library, how the offices become the stacks for books, how the circular lobby becomes inspiration for the courtyard and how the children's museum will live on the second level. Now known as the LINC (Library INnovation Center) it is scheduled to open in 2023.
Design Threads
What could a library be?
Early concept
Bubble Diagram
Tribune floorplan
LINC floorplan
LINC mezzanine plan
Before
Addition
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