2023 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Methven Library
This project looks deceptively simple from the street where it sits comfortably in its rural community. Materials and forms nod to the practical agricultural or modest residential buildings of the area. The familiar form and materials are composed in a way that achieves a civic presence. The multiple functions of the building are organised logically along a central corridor. However, the central corridor is more than a simple circulation device. It is used as a sculptural surprise, with its angular path and expressed junction of the roof gables providing a special spatial experience.
- Practice
- Crosson Architects Limited
- Category
- Public Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
