the People

Owner:
City of Phoenix
Toni Garvey (City of Phoenix Librarian)
Jon Kolstad, AIA, LEED (City of Phoenix Project Manager)

Architect:
Line and Space, LLC
627 East Speedway
Tucson, Arizona 85705
P: (520) 623-1313
F: (520) 623-1303
/www.lineandspace.com/

Lead Design Architect: Les Wallach, FAIA

Project Architect: Johnny Birkinbine, AIA

Project Manager: Henry Tom, AIA

Design Team: Les Wallach FAIA, Henry Tom AIA, Johnny Birkinbine AIA, Mike Anglin, Jennifer DaRos, Ray Jin, Manny Kropf (Registered Architect)

Interior designer:
Line and Space in collaboration with Richard+Bauer

Engineer(s):
Civil: KPFF Consulting Engineers

Structural:Caruso Turley Scott

Mechanical and Electrical: Energy Systems Design

Fire Protection: Echeverri-Josephs Engineering Group Inc.

Consultant(s):
Landscape:
McGann & Associates

Lighting:
Energy Systems Design

General contractor:
Linthicum

Photographer(s):
Bill Timmerman: (602) 420-9325

Mark Boisclair: (602) 957-6997 / mark@markboisclair.com

Les Wallach, FAIA: (520) 623-1313 / lesw@lineandspace.com

Henry Tom, AIA: (520) 623-1313 / henryt@lineandspace.com

John Birkinbine, AIA: (520) 623-1313 / johnnyb@lineandspace.com

Mike Anglin (520) 623-1313 / mikea@lineandspace.com

Renderer(s):
All drawings, diagrams and sketches by Line and Space, LLC

CAD system, project management, or other software used:
AutoCad

the Products

Structural system:
Structural steel system fabricated by Ikon Steel

Exterior cladding:
Masonry: Quality Block

Metal/glass curtainwall:
See windows below for aluminum curtain walls

Concrete: Rinker

EIFS, ACM, or other: Dryvit

Roofing:
Other:
Arizona Foam & Spray (insulative spray foam roof with protective acrylic coating and aggregate surface)

Windows::
Steel: Custom steel window boxes fabricated by Ikon Steel

Aluminum: Arcadia (storefronts and curtain walls)

Glazing:
Glass: Oldcastle

Skylights: Solatube

Doors:
Entrances:
sliding automatic entrance door: Besam

Metal doors: Amweld

Wood doors: Buell Door Company

Sliding doors: Custom glass sliding door

Fire-control doors, security grilles:
Cookson (overhead coiling fire doors)

Hardware:
Locksets: Sargent

Hinges: Rixon, McKinney

Closers: LCN

Exit devices: Sargent

Pulls: Rockwood

Security devices: Securitron

Cabinet hardware: Blum, Accuride

Interior finishes:
Acoustical ceilings:
Ecophon (ceiling clouds)
Armstrong (ceilings in staff offices and workspaces)

Suspension grid: Armstrong

Cabinetwork and custom woodwork:
Custom woodwork fabricated by Gemini Company

Paints and stains:
Dunn Edwards (paints)

Wallcoverings:
Eurotex (acoustic wall carpet in Public Meeting Room, Children’s Story Room, and Staff Lounge)

Plastic laminate: Formica

Special surfacing:
Custom wood tops fabricated by Gemini Company

Custom steel top fabricated by Magnum Architectural Inc.

Corian, Avonite

Floor and wall tile:
Lea Ceramiche, DAL Tile (restroom walls)

Carpet: Interface

Furnishings:
Office furniture: Herman Miller

Reception furniture:
Custom Information Desk – see custom millwork above

interior entry seating: Globe

Fixed seating:
Library design provides integral cast concrete bench at interior and masonry benches for seating at exterior

Chairs:
Arconas (stackable), Danko Persing (reading and public computer areas), Nienkamper (lounge chairs), Davis Furniture (lounge chairs), Dauphin (Children’s Area), Loewenstein (Children’s Area), Keilhauer (Computer Classroom)

Tables:
Vecta (computer and reading areas), Bretford (flip tops), Harter (coffee tables)

Upholstery:
Extremis (exterior “picnic” tables)

Lighting:
Interior ambient lighting:
Natural light during daytime hours supplemented with fixtures by Peerless

Downlights: Peerless, Lithonia

Task lighting: Peerless, Bruck

Exterior: Lithonia, Hydrel, Bega

Controls:
Hubbel (occupancy sensors in staff areas)

Plumbing:
low consumption water closets: Crane

waterless urinals, low consumption flushometers, battery powered hand washing faucets: Sloan

water fountains: Elkay

Special equipment that made a significant contribution to this project:
Adjustable aluminum spot diffusers manufactured by Air Concepts used to temper exterior reading patio