Winchester Discovery Centre
Winchester Discovery Centre is the flagship project for Hampshire’s library rejuvenation. The scheme restores and extends a grade II* corn exchange to provide a library, gallery, performance hall and café.
The original layout is re-established and reinforced with contemporary
but sympathetic elements. For example, a new mezzanine floor follows the
line of the original circular courtyard centrepiece. The new performance
hall and art gallery are to the rear of the development so they do not
dominate the listed building. A new stone and glass wing containing library
space and a café forms one side of a new public place for Winchester.
The rear wall of the new wing, covered by a vast embroidery by Alice Kettle,
is top lit to help increase the transparency of the front façade.
