Maya Lin’s design for Smith College’s Neilson Library is an innovative, contemporary structure that presents a compelling vision for the modern library while respecting the existing building’s ...

The transformation of Smith’s century-old library into a modern, multifunctional teaching and learning center was completed in the spring of 2021. Designed by Maya Lin, the bold, energy-efficient, ...

On March 29, the Smith College Neilson Library, on the Northampton, Mass., campus of Smith College, reopened to students after a four-year, $120 million renovation and expansion that reimagine the ...

NORTHAMPTON — Several years ago, after she’d been chosen by Smith College to redesign the school’s aging Neilson Library, artist and architect Maya Lin visited the school and told a packed audience at ...

Shawmut Design and Construction has recently completed the $120 million renovation of Smith College’s Neilson Library in Northampton, Ma. The project took the original, outdated building and ...

Wood craftsman Sam French of Gill with one of the “cookie tables” he built for Smith College’s Neilson Library. The wood came from a venerable elm tree just outside the library that had to be taken ...

NORTHAMPTON - A site plan for extensive additions and renovations to Smith College's Neilson Library and adjacent Alumnae gymnasium were approved at the Northampton Planning Board meeting Thursday ...

In architecture, as in drama, it is unwise to upstage the star. Additions to a building, if it has any historical or aesthetic significance, should defer to the original. At Smith College’s renovated ...