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Why this Austin suburb made a library the centerpiece of its new downtown

Patrick Sisson 24.01.2025

When the new library in Cedar Park, Texas, opened its doors last month, it made a splashy entrance. Designed by award-winning architectural firm Lake Flato, it’s meant to exemplify the ways a library can be a diverse, equitable public good.

The backyard includes a new playground by Danish designer Monstrum, featuring plays paces shaped like giant wooden birds. The ground floor boasts a maker space, community rooms, and a massive wall that mimics a bookshelf, to buffer activity areas from quiet reading rooms. There’s even a mechanical sorter built into one wall, which allows patrons to watch books circulate around the new building.

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