Evening Standard salutes the reading renaissance at the London Library
Media
17/06/2010
The London Library's rebirth as one of the city's finest information sources and reading spaces continues. Writing in the Evening Standard, Kieran Long, finds the reborn library "a place of character" and salutes the architect's Haworth Tompkins ability to modernise with great sensitivity to the building's original identity.
Mace has been construction managing the first and current second phases of the library's redevelopment, involving complex demolition, extension, fit out and refurbishments - a challenging job given its crowded side-street location and completed whilst the library was still open. For Mace this was first and foremost an exercise in sympathetic construction, where working methodology is defined around our client's day to day concerns and culture.
As Kieran comments: "Any architect and builder (the contractor was Mace) willing to go through such a meticulous design process and then build it in full view of the public should be applauded."
Read the full Evening Standard feature here:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23845717-the-london-librarys-looking-good.do
More on London Library:
http://www.macegroup.com/sectors/arts-and-culture/sympathetic-construction
Project:
http://www.macegroup.com/projects/project-library/the-london-library
