ABSTRACT
The building comprises 6000m2 of library accommodation providing traditional bookshelf facilities, 700 reader spaces, a television studio and media production area, and seminar and catering facilities. The brief had three key features:
– to create a green building which would not cost more than other learning resource centres;
– to design a building which the university could use to enhance its reputation for good environmental practice and sympathetic urban renewal;
– to create a building from which lessons could be learned.
