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Area

136,800 sf

Certification

LEED Silver

In the Media

Featured building tour, SCUP North Atlantic

A view of the newly opened staircase, connecting multiple floors to encourage movement and visibility.
Student studying in one of the learning pods
Students and faculty take phone and video calls in the newly added boths
Interior view of one of the classrooms
Snell Library has prominent data visualization graphics

Four academic centers anchor the space, featuring data visualization graphics recognizing research by University students. 

Interior view of one of the data visualization graphics
Student walks up the new staircase

The formerly-enclosed main stair is opened across five floors for broad usage. A low-relief wall adds a tactile quality to a context of digital study.

View showing multiple floors and the updated main stairs
The Snell Library renovation incorporates a gallery

The ground floor is expanded to create a new entrance, event space, café, and gallery that invite the campus community to a broad use of the library.

Exterior view shows one of the new bay windows
Rendered diagram of the ground floor expansion
Architectural section of the Snell Library Renovation

Flexible architecture allows spaces to shift in use around project work and interpretation of data—day and night.

The Snell Library Renovation incorporates dynamic mixed spaces

With library planning experts Brightspot Strategy, we held workshops to transform the building toward the University’s experiential learning pedagogy. 

Students work in the new learning pods
program diagrams of the Snell Library Renovation
Interior of the Snell Library showing a modern lounge area with a curved gray sectional sofa, yellow accent chairs, and students working on laptops in a bright, open-plan space.

Snell Library Renovation Northeastern University

The University leadership has decided to remove most volumes from the main campus to focus on a new usefulness for their library—to become the ‘leading edge of their emphasis on innovative, interdisciplinary and team-based research.

Built in the 1990’s, Snell Library is the center of academic research for Northeastern University’s diverse graduate and undergraduate community– heavily used with more than 1.2 million annual visitors. With books being relocated and available ‘on-call’ in eight hours from a remote warehouse, the vast floorplates are available to be comprehensively re-programmed for space and function to support collaborative interdisciplinary research.

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