FOCAL - Friends of the Central Atlanta Library

09/04/2022

Look who's on the cover of American Libraries Magazine this month! Central Library is part of the design showcase.

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/magazine/

10/05/2021

The Central Library reopened to the public today.

In front of several hundred attendees at the May 25, 1980 dedication of the Atlanta Central Library, then-Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson proclaimed, “A great city deserves a great library.” The 10-story, Brutalist style building in Downtown by internationally renowned architect Marcel Breuer, his...

12/24/2019

“The changes, Fulton County Commission Chairman Robb Pitts said, give the library ‘more pizzazz.’”

Fulton County has spent $275 million to open and renovate libraries after voters approved a program in 2008 that will be completed in 2020.

10/03/2019

Tellingly, this work is being performed by a company called Landmark Demo.
https://www.landmarkdemo.com/portfolio/fulton-county-central-library-renovation

Following years of debate, the last design by famed architect Marcel Breuer is getting a controversial update.

08/19/2019

Fulton County has announced that much of the controversial work to the exterior of the Central Library in Downtown is expected to begin this week. The altering of architect Marcel Breuer’s final work to add windows to the Brutalist exterior has been a sore point with architects and preservationist...

08/12/2019

07/26/2019

Windows are soon to be chiseled into the last design by famed Brutalist architect Marcel Breuer.

07/24/2019

The partial exterior demolition of the National Register-listed Central Library has begun.

03/16/2019

The Central Library’s been closed for renovations since last July and, as noted here, is expected to reopen (new windows included) in May 2020.

Marcel Breuer's 1966 Whitney Museum was one of his finest works. The Bauhaus-trained designer would bring something similar to the South just before his death.

02/03/2019

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!

Atlanta is gearing up to host the 53rd Super Bowl this weekend, so we've put together a guide to the Southern US city's most interesting buildings in case American football isn't your thing.