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Winchester Discovery Centre Building Visit

Winchester Discovery Centre is the flagship for Hampshire's library rejuvenation. The scheme restores and extends a Grade 2 corn exchange to provide a library, gallery, performance hall and café. The original layout is re-established and reinforced with contemporary but sympathetic elements. 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 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 facade.

The tour will be conducted by Alec Gillies and Martin Hallum of Hampshire County Council Architecture and Design Services