This project for Capital Challenge Hackney is the conversion of an old 1950’s disused and dilapidated branch library into a Community Resource Centre providing flexible space for a range of activities including social groups and meetings, creche, exhibitions and performance events, computer training and homework club for the densely populated Woodberry Down Estate community in North London. The layout has been planned to provide different types of spaces. The perimeter has varied meeting, technology and quiet rooms with the central area usable either fully open plan or with a central space defined by curved movable wall panels. The centre was named after the much loved local policeman Robin Redmond whose energy and resolve instigated the project, and who sadly died before the project was completed. Read more...