RISD converts historic bank into design library

摘要

Artists at the Rhode Island School of Design will have a new source of visual inspiration as well as a place to study or socialize when the Fleet Library, a historic renovation of a Beaux Arts banking hall, is unveiled on campus this fall. The two-story library topped by nine floors of student housing was adapted for reuse as a central gathering hub and training ground for the school's artists and designers by RISD alumnus Nader Tehrani and partner Monica Ponce de Leon, principals of the Boston-based architecture firm Office dA.