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“I think what a library means to our community has changed, but this type of designation really shows that not only is this going to be a huge landmark for Calgary, this is going to be an internationally recognized landmark for Western Canada,” says Mary Kapusta, the Director, Communications, for Calgary Public Library. Scheduled to open in November, the long-awaited library is rising up just east of City Hall. It will boast an impressive 240,000 square feet of space, making it about two-thirds larger than the existing downtown library, and it will contain more than half a million books. Other planned amenities include multiple meeting rooms, a performance hall, separate spaces
for children and teens, a technology commons, and an innovation lab. It will be easily accessible by CTrain, which runs under the building. (By the way, the trains remained active while a tunnel was built around the tracks—the first time for such a feat in Calgary.) While the use of wood and the incorporation of large windows and a grand staircase are nothing to scoff at, the library’s pièce de résistance may well be an enormous skylight designed to look like a human eye. Among various personalizing flourishes, the most endearing has to be the 700 messages written by library lovers on a massive steel beam, intended to inspire generations to come.
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