The New York Public Library unveils a pristine renovation of an overlooked branch.
Though the New York Public Library is perhaps best known for its Stephen A Schwarzman location on Bryant Park, the striking renovation of the neighboring Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library is giving the Beaux-Arts building a run for its money. The $200 million transformation, overseen by Mecanoo and Beyer Blinder Belle, includes 180,000 square feet of space with additional public seating areas, a whole floor dedicated to children, a business center, and a rooftop terrace. Andreas Dracopoulos, co-president of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, describes the renovation as “a truly public space, accessible to all, on the front line of further empowering the NYPL to deliver its mission of providing lifelong learning to all and strengthening our sense of community.”
The exterior of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, part of the New York Public Library system. Credit: John Bartlestone/nypl.orgThe Stavros Niarchos Library, or SNL, the central circulating branch of the New York Public Library, has now reopened after a very difficult pandemic year that came just as the library was undergoing a complete refurbishment, renaming…
The two-pronged, $125 million program will offer artists guaranteed income and full-time salaries at local organizations.
June 3, 2021
A closed and empty 125th Street, a street usually
packed with people shopping in the many stores along the street. Photo: Kay Hickman.
How can New York’s creative economy bounce back from the pandemic? According to one new program, the answer is simple: pay artists.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is leading the charge on an ambitious $125 million initiative called Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY), which it describes as one of the largest philanthropic efforts to date to stimulate New York’s arts ecosystem.
The Greek Genome Centre was created some ago with funding from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
“The Greek Genome Centre has been at the core of Greece’s effort to study the coronavirus genome and cases of COVID-19 since April 2020. In January 2021, with new variants of the virus threatening to reverse hard-earned progress, a decision by the Prime Minister of Greece created the National Network of Genomic Monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 to detect and monitor variants. At SNF, we are proud of our collaboration with the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA), which led, a few years ago, to the creation of the Greek Genome Centre,” the Foundation stated in a social media post in March.»