{"id":1173,"date":"2019-12-07T13:15:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T13:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ngparchitects.co.uk\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2019-12-07T13:15:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T13:15:38","slug":"lochal-public-library-has-won-building-of-the-year-at-the-world-architecture-awards-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngparchitects.co.uk\/?p=1173","title":{"rendered":"LocHal Public Library has won Building of the Year at the World Architecture Awards 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"firstpara\" style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">Civic Architects&#8217; LocHal Public Library has won Building of the Year at the\u00a0<a style=\"cursor: default;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchitecturefestival.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #fc6c23; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">World Architecture Festival&#8217;s (WAF)<\/span><\/a>\u00a0World Architecture Awards 2019.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"firstpara\" style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngparchitects.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HIGH343931_202051_499250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1174\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ngparchitects.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HIGH343931_202051_499250.jpg\" alt=\"HIGH343931_202051_499250\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">Designed in partnership with Braaksma &amp; Roos Architectenbureau, Inside Outside, Petra Blaise and Mecanoo Architecten, the building is a new urban living room created in a former locomotive shed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">The project is designed to provide a space for people of all ages to read, learn, study, meet and gather.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">Historical elements have been retained, including the original train tracks as well as new oak and steel additions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">Judges commended the project for its &#8220;fine details and the use of textiles which create the necessary intimacy for the human scale, whilst considering the old steel structure\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">The project triumphed in the \u2018Culture &#8211; Completed Buildings\u2019 category earlier in the festival and also won &#8216;Creative Re-Use&#8217; category at the WAF&#8217;s sister event, the INSIDE World Festival of Interiors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">The winner of World Interior of the Year at INSIDE, meanwhile, was J.C. 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