RDH nestles a library into a hillside

WATERDOWN – A new library and civic centre now looks out over the Niagara escarpment in a small community outside Hamilton, Ontario. The designers at Toronto firm RDH intended for the building to respond to the region’s lithic, rolling topography.
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