Judgments: WeHo Library is a Civic Winner

Brace: LA Times architectural critic Christopher Hawthorne not only likes the new Johnson Favaro-designed West Hollywood Library, he thinks it might signal "the first local stirrings of a postmodern revival" (eek). While he admits that the vehicle/pedestrian interaction on the street-level is awkward, he writes that "it is tough to think of many civic projects that can match the upbeat, gregarious appeal of the library, which has managed to navigate the punishing low-bid, public-sector construction process without sacrificing its ambition or design personality." [LAT]