Facts about the Bing Wing of the Cecil H. Green
Library
Architect: Fields
and Devereaux Architects & Engineers
Partner in charge:
Peter Devereaux, AIA
Project architect:
Ronald Briggs, RA
Interior Design: Brayton
& Hughes Design Studio, Stanford Hughes, AIA
Historic Consultant: Architectural
Resources Group
Building Chronology
Original Building Opening
Date: July 14, 1919
Upper two tiered stack
levels added: 1956
Basement constructed: 1964
Opening Date of East Wing:
January 1980
Renovation of West (Bing)
Wing: 1980-81
Tiered stack seismic
bracing project: 1987-88
Loma Prieta Earthquake: October
17, 1989
Completion of Stanford
Auxiliary Library
Phase II to house
books during Bing
Wing Reconstruction: 1993
Post-Reconstruction Bing
Wing Opening Date: Fall 1999
Bing Wing Dedication
Ceremonies: October 12, 1999
Bing Wing Facts and
Figures
Gross area in square feet:
approx. 172,000
Net area in square feet:
approx. 145,000
tiered & basement
stacks, ±70,000
public areas, ± 55,000
staff areas, ± 20,000
Shelving capacity: approx.
85,000
linear feet (or about 1,000,000 volumes)
Seating: 450
reader seats
157 table seating;
68 soft seating;
56 carrels;
75 computer workstations & kiosks;
30 group studies;
64 seminar & conference
Reader internet
connections: 400
Project Budget:
$48,639,000 SR
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