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 ENODO HELPS FOSTER AND PARTNERS TO WIN THE NEW YORK’S PUBLIC LIBRARY RENOVATION PROJECT
 Nice, France, November 21st, 2008
Last October it was publicly announced that Norman Foster, the eminent British architect, had been selected for a major renovation of the New York Public Library’s landmark 1911 main building, on Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets.
 "It’s the greatest project ever" Lord Foster said in an interview with the New York Times on October 23, 2008.
The London based architectural practice, Foster + Partners, is to create a new circulation in a space below the library’s Rose Reading Room and overlooking Bryant Park that now houses seven levels of stacks and a basement.
Starting with about 30 candidates, the Library was particularly impressed by the architect’s firm efforts and their elaborated visual presentations, the special committee of the Library’s Board of Trustees said.
"They did do a knockout proposal” said Paul LeClerc, president of the library.
ENODO (then called IMAGTP) is extremely proud to share Foster & Partners’ distinction.
With this new prize it is all our hard work and expertise that are being, once again, rewarded.
Indeed, our teamwork with the British architectural practice started early this year and, very quickly,
they embraced the power and benefits of using our services.
We have been supporting their design teams on recent major international architectural competitions and the New York public library project is one of them.
Our collaboration with Foster & Partners on the New York Library was not limited to the creation of a
Cutting - edge presentation media. At a very early stage they used our solution to visualize and validate various project’s design options and their complexity.
At the final presentation in New York our Interactive Virtual Model ® was chosen to support the crucial questions-and-answers session.
Mr. Jean-Baptiste Reynes, ENODO’s CEO, who conducted the real-time presentation of the project remembers a member of the committee saying: “Now, I understand how it will work.”
Designs for the project are expected to be completed over a two-year period.
The project is expected to cost $250 million and the renovation will probably last for four years.
Foster+Partners
Foster & Partners was founded in London in 1967.
It is now a worldwide practice, with project offices in more than twenty countries.
Over the past four decades the company has been responsible for a strikingly wide range of work, from urban master planning, public infrastructure, airports, civic and cultural buildings, offices and workplaces to private houses and product design. Since its inception, the practice has received 470 awards and citations for excellence and has won more than 86 international and national competitions.
For more information : www.fosterandpartners.com
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