Pasadena College Plans $17-Million, 3-Story Library
Pasadena City College will build a $17-million, three-story library to replace a smaller, aging facility that dates from the 1950s, the school’s president has announced.
Ground breaking for the 90,000-square-foot building is set for mid-1990, and the new library is expected to open in 1992 at the southwest corner of Colorado Boulevard and Bonnie Avenue.
It will be built with $15 million in funds provided by the state and $2 million that the college hopes to raise from alumni groups and charitable organizations.
School officials say the present facility, built in 1950 to serve 5,000 students, lacks the space and books to serve today’s student body of 25,000.
Gruen Associates of Los Angeles will design and build the library. The firm’s architects have extensive experience in campus-related architecture: They built Claremont Colleges’ Central Library, designed master plans for an addition to the central library at U.C. San Diego and the Miami University Art Museum and Cultural Center.
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