Anyone suffer vertigo?
Piers Gough’s practice CZWG has just received outline planning permission for this dramatic £10 million library – the centrepiece for London’s Canada Water masterplan.
The library takes the form of a huge trapezoid, and is the cornerstone of the east London area’s regeneration, which is being driven by British Land and Canada Quays Limited.
In addition to state-of-the-art computer, internet and lending facilities, the library – which is clad in light bronze anodized aluminium – will include a café and a ‘performance space’.
In a statement, CZWG said the ‘overall dramatic image of the building suggests the excitement and grandeur of the learning available to an individual within.’
Construction is expected to complete in 2009.
by Max Thompson AJonline Published 08 May 2007 at 16:07, updated 16:09
I’m looking forward to seeing the Designers risk assessment for cleaning the facade. A cherry picker mounted on a barge perhaps?