The New York Public Library has selected Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo for a $300 million project to completely overhaul the Mid-Manhattan branch and to update its flagship location, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building in Bryant Park. The announcement comes more than a year after the library canceled plans for Norman Foster’s controversial renovation design for the main branch.

Construction at the Mid-Manhattan branch on Fifth Avenue is expected to start in late 2017, and the design will include a circulating library, a business library, a large education area, and spaces for public programs and classes, according Mecanoo.

After work begins at the Mid-Manhattan branch, Mecanoo will begin expanding public space at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building by about 42 percent, which will entail transforming vacant and underused staff areas. The design will include spaces for researchers and writers, public programming, and exhibitions.

Mecanoo was unanimously approved by the Library’s Board of Trustees after an eight-month selection process. The architect of record will be the New York firm Beyer Blinder Belle. The other three finalists for the project were Grimshaw Architects, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, according to Curbed .

This will be Mecanoo’s first project in New York, and its third in the U.S.; the firm is currently renovating the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C.