EASTON+COMBS :: Rona Easton :: Lonn Combs :: National Library of the Czech Republic

2010 MoMA P.S. 1 YAP
Museum of Polish History
Museum of Contemporary Art in Wroclaw
Airport Parking Facility, Houston
National Library of the Czech Republic
Gyeonggi-Do Jeongok Prehistory Museum
The Mill Center for the Arts
Stavanger Concert Hall
Malama Learning Center
Triptukhos Series for Labor and Domiciles

Strong-Light
Hunter Douglas Light Research Studio

Office Profile
Lonn Combs, Principal
Rona Easton, Principal
Publications
Exhibitions
Awards

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Press Information

[03 2010] AIA NY 2010 Merit Award LUX NOVA (AIA NY)

[01 2010] EASTON+COMBS interview: 2010 MoMA P.S. 1 YAP (Core.form-ula)

[01 2010] 2010 MoMA P.S. 1 YAP, EASTON+COMBS invited finalist (PS1 YAP)

[03 2009] Architype Review, 2009 Notable Projects: Parking Vol.04 No.01 Online Journal featuring Easton+Combs Airport Parking Project (LINK)

[05 2009] Young Architects Forum 2008: RESONANCE (AMAZON LINK)

[11 2008] 1000x Architecture of the Americas
Featuring two projects of EASTON+COMBS
pg. 244: Mill Center for the Performing Arts
pg. 248: Airport Parking Facility
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[04 2008] Lonn Combs selected to participate in the Architectural League's Young Architects Forum 2008: RESONANCE
Exhibition: May 08, 2008 to July 11, 2008
Lecture: May 15, 2008, 6:30pm
Location: Municipal Art Society of New York
www.archleague.org

[12 2007] Interior Architecture of China: Issue 12/2007, EASTON+COMBS profile / Lonn Combs teaching profile at Pratt Institute School of Architecture, pages 250-255 http://www.ccddesign.cn

[10 2007] Praxis 9: Expanding Surface, "Easton+Combs; From Skin to Surface" by Filip Tejchman, pages 39-45 http://www.praxisjournal.net/home.htm

[02 2007] "Consilient Mapping: Nine Probes for Architecture in Korea", Symposium Catalogue

[10 2006] "Consilient Mapping: Nine Probes for Architecture in Korea", Invited exhibition at the Total Museum, Seoul, Korea Group exhibition (50 international architects) with recent work. http://www.totalmuseum.org/

[09 2006] Future Arquitecturas, Issue 5/2006, Jeongok Prehistory Museum, pages 56, 62-63

[09 2006] L'Arca, Issue 217 09/2006, Jeongok Prehistory Museum, pages 76-85

[06 2006] Competitions Magazine, Summer 2006, Jeongok Prehistory Museum, pages 8, 12-15

[05 2006] Concept Magazine, Issue 85 05/2006, Jeongok Prehistory Museum, pages 54-57

[05 2006] Space, Issue 462, 05/2006, Jeongok Prehistory Museum, pages 120-121

[05 2006] POAR People & Architecture, Issue 05, 05/2006, Jeongok Prehistory Museum, pages 56-57

[05 2006] Archiword, Issue 132, 05/2006, Jeongok Prehistory Museum, pages 178-18

[05 2006] International Competition for the Gyeonggi-do Jeongok Prehistory Museum, Seoul, Korea Public exhibition of award winning entry.

[04 2006] Presentations for Prize winning works of the International Competition for the Gyeonggi-do Jeongok Prehistory Museum, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea Presentation of award winning entry and recent work

[04 2006] New York NOW People's Choice Award Invited Lecture, NYAIA Center For Architecture, New York Project: AirPark IAH; lecture April 10, 2006

[04 2006] Jeongok Prehistory Museum International Architectural Competition, sponsored by the Union of International Architects 3rd Place Winner

[01 2006] Spring Semester Evening Lecture Series; School of Design, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Recent Work

Text

The New National Library provides public access to the national collections and functions as the repository of national literary exemplars of the Czech Republic. As an act of public architecture, the archiving of more than five million volumes presents a fundamental difficulty to the buildings public character. A conceptualization of the volumetric apportionment of the public spaces (20 percent) to the storage and operational spaces (80 percent) as a poché relationship of solid and void allows an organizational strategy of the laminar aeration of the public spaces through the mass of the libraries collections to materialize. A new spatial typology emerges which binds the public spaces through the mass of the library’s service operations and collections areas to produce a rich matrix of adjacency in staff and public operations whilst not compromising the strict programmatic separations required by the function of a large institutional library.

Data

Location: Prague, The Czech Republic
Client: The National Library of the Czech Republic
Program: Public national library and national archives
Site: 11,524sqm [1.1524 hectares] [2.85 acres]
Building: 54,000sqm [580,000sqf]
Projected Cost: 85 million EUR
Status: International Architectural Competition

Credits

Design Architect: Lonn Combs and Rona Easton with Aaron White
Project Team: Jeremy Carvalho, Vicky Chan, Adrian Lo, Hannah Meeran
Structural: Brian Markham (ARUP-NYC)
Environmental Systems: Mahadev Raman (ARUP-NYC)