"Rustic to fit in with traditional Bay Area style, organic, and with respect for the city’s semi-rural setting. Clad in stone, with a canopy at the top. Challenging elevation changes, but with challenge comes 'opportunity'."

-- Barbara Flammang, principal architect of Flammang and Killefer, award-winning designers of the Lafayette Library and Learning Center

From its exterior of recycled teak and natural stone, to its high-tech solar panels, vaulted trussed ceiling and abundant natural light, the Lafayette Library and Learning Center is testimony to the beauty of being "green." Sunlight refracts from prisms in the innovative solar fireplace across roomy tables and comfortable chairs. Scaled to be kid-sized, the adjacent Children’s Area offers its own generous, well-lit space with reading nooks, an activity deck, a storytelling amphitheater and computer stations.  Elsewhere, outdoor reading terraces and a Zen pocket garden beckon you to sit, read, reflect.