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Vickery Park Branch Library
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The City of Dallas, new Vickery library is a single story modern design building. It has a youth center and numerous spaces for classes and community meetings. The building is sustainable to include carbon neutral, solar panels on the roof and a stormwater retention pond. The library also includes an exposed steel tensile system that supports its metal roof deck. Datum created a three-dimensional truss system, with a network of steel cables traversing the width of the 80-foot span.
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