We recently joined Queens Public Library and NYC Department of Design and Construction to cut the ribbon on the *spectactular* new Far Rockaway library!! 📚 Commissioner Laurie Cumbo joined local leaders to open this remarkable, $39 million library - designed by Snøhetta and built by our good friends at DDC - which includes a new #PercentForArtNYC commission by artist Pablo Helguera: "Feynman's Code." Helguera created “Feynman's Code” as a tribute to the Nobel Prize-winner and theoretical physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988), who grew up in this neighborhood and attended Far Rockaway High School. Feynman is widely regarded as one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. One of his contributions to physics are the Feynman diagrams, pictorial representations describing the behavior of subatomic particles. For the Far Rockaway Library, Helguera has integrated Feynman’s work into an alphabet, where every letter is replaced by a Feynman diagram. The two phrases incorporated in the two sections of the building include a phrase from a poem by Richard Feynman himself, “I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe,” as well as a phrase by Emily Dickinson, “The brain is wider than the sky.” This project, aside from being a tribute to Richard Feynman, celebrates the value of intellectual curiosity. In 2019, Helguera’s design for the project received a Excellence in Design Award from the Public Design Commission. Today, libraries are so much more than places to borrow books (though they are most definitely still that, too). They are job training facilities, cultural hubs, and community centers all rolled into one. The Adams Administration is committed to making our city more livable for all New Yorkers, and that means ensuring New Yorkers have access to top notch civic and public spaces — and libraries are one of the most important forms of civic space we have. We're proud to have worked with the Far Rockaway community to create this public artwork that will engage visitors to this extraordinary new library for generations to come. Photos by DDC and DCLA. #NYCulture #Libraries #Queens #NYC #FarRockaway
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