Winner of a 2001 AIA Michigan design award, this library’s design intent was to be like a good book, one that captures curiosity and wonder at what’s around the next corner.  The library has a “castle-like” appearance reflected in the exterior facade, interior furnishings, and interior signage.  Surrounding the courtyard are several “mini-buildings” with a range of geometrically different roof treatments: a hipped roof on an entry pavilion, a barrel vault on the community room, a gable over the reading room, a domed rotunda over the circulation desk, partially hipped forms over the reference desk and study carrels, and a four-sided pyramid over the young adult area.  To reinforce the goal of the Camelot-feel, windows were kept relatively small and exterior doors were de-emphasized via recessed entries.