Roman Baths Clore Learning Centre

by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Client Bath and North East Somerset Council

Awards RIBA South West Award 2023

Housed within the city of Bath’s historic Roman baths, a Grade II-listed building, in a conservation area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the new Clore Learning Centre strikes a delicate balance between protecting the existing monument and creating new learning facilities that utilise and reveal underused spaces previously inaccessible to the public. 

From the street, the only visible marker of the new centre is a discreet entrance at ground level animated with a lightweight metal filigree screen. Beyond, architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios have conceived a meticulously designed and spatially complex sequence of learning spaces accessed via a neat arrangement of vertical and horizontal pedestrian routes.  

Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal.

Contractor Beard Construction 

Structural Engineer Integral Engineering Design

Services Engineer Method Consulting

Exhibition Designer Houghton Kneale Design

Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant Edmond Shipway

Archaeologist Cotswold Archaeology

CDM Advisor Chase Consulting

Fire Engineer The Fire Surgery

Acoustic Consultant Harmonia Consulting

Gross internal area in m2 1190