Library Square Condominiums

• Address

  310 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111

• Year Completed

  2004

• Historic Information

  Restored, Rehabilitated or Remodeled
  
  

• Building Type

  Residential

• Location Area

  Thru out Salt Lake County

• Architect:

  Max J. Smith

• Firm/Partnership

  MJSA Architects

• Project Description

  Building Description: MJSA Architects described this building as: “This twenty-six unit building is on an infill site near the City and County Building and Library Square.

  It provides a residential component to a very lively mixed-use neighborhood of retail shops, offices, and restaurants. It was designed with interior parking at the ground level behind live-work apartments on the principal street exposure. The secondary street, Mortenson Court, is a series of townhouses, which serve to enliven the street while providing a different type of housing to the mix. During the early stages of the design, it was discovered that the remnant of an early street (Mortenson Court) existed as a right-of-way to surface parking at the block interior.

  By placing the townhouses here we hope to revive the historic street through the block as market pressure builds to replace the parking with housing and other uses. The balance of the units is accessed via exterior street-bridges resulting in more that one exposure for views and natural light.”¹





• Sources

  1. “Library Square,” from MJSA Architects’ website, accessed December 15, 2016, http://mjsaa.com/portfolio/library-square/.