Briefs – January 2008

The New York Public Library will restore the façade of its Fifth Avenue building, according to the New York Sun. Restoration work will begin this spring, with a targeted completion in three years to meet the building’s centennial in 2011. Now known as the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, the building’s exterior marble needs repair of cracks, chips, and erosion. WJE Engineers & Architects P.C. in New York designed the $55 million restoration, most of which is already funded from city, state, and federal sources.