The Huntington Beach Central Public Library

Awesome late-modern architecture in Huntington Beach, Orange County, California. Designed by the firm of Richard and Dion Neutra. Completed in 1975.

An unfortunate po-mo addition was made in the 1990s, defacing the front of the original building, but most of the inside and the rear are still intact.
Link to Huntington Beach Public Library website: (
http://www.hbpl.org/ )

The following images are scans from an Italian magazine called Architettura, vol. 22, no. 250-251, 1976. I share them with you so that you may appreciate the library as it once was.

page created September 20, 2008.

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