WHAT MLK MEMORIAL COULD BE:

This renovated downtown flagship library is the vision that the mayor doesn’t want you to see!

Teach-In: How to Revitalize MLK

Wednesday, June 7 @ 6:30 p.m.

Carnegie Science Building

1530 P St., NW

Free and Open To The Public

Come see the downtown library renovation design that the mayor doesn’t

want you to know about. Learn the history of the first public building in

the country dedicated to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King,

Jr., the only library in the world designed by famed architect Ludwig Mies van der

Rohe, and the first District building constructed under Home Rule.

Renderings by David Hamilton, Jin Hee Kim and Jongyan Kim.

Architect’s vision of 2nd Floor Reading Room Atrium with skylight over the new 5th floor.

Undertaken by local architects at the library’s request in 2000, this

design study for the renovation of MLK library was created in

collaboration with library staff and users, resolving the problems they

identified in an innovative and dramatic fashion. Overlooked at the time

and ignored since, you can see the vision for MLK’s future that the mayor’s “Blue Ribbon” library task force was not shown.

Become fully informed about all options before the June 15 City Council

hearing on the mayor’s plan to abandon the historic, stand-alone MLK

library in favor of a new central library to be part of “mixed use”

development at the site of the old convention center. Your questions and

concerns will be addressed by Kent Cooper, AIA, original lead architect of

the design study, in an open Q & A.

Sponsored by the DC Library Renaissance Project

For more information, contact Robin Diener at 202/387-7776

or [email protected]