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Located on the banks of lake Canada Water, set within an eye catching inverted pyramid, is a new library from Southwark Council. Canada Water Library was designed by renowned architect Piers Gough of CZWG, and boasts a café, theatre, seminar rooms, and IT suites for educational purposes. Piers said: “The idea of a free standing object in space is quite appropriate for a library, since it is a portal to the discovery of other worlds. The library is an indoor public space open to everyone, where you find wonderful things you weren’t necessarily looking for. It is a futuristic Pandora’s box of possibilities.” Southwark Council outlined the brief for Canada Water Library in 2006, and the library was planned to be one of the first buildings in the regeneration process of the area. Architect CZWG was asked to design a space that would be accommodating for all age groups, including children, students and adults. And it was the inverted pyramid shape that helped Piers and his team achieve the brief. This design allows the library to occupy just one level, with the more communal and social spaces on another. Piers specified a spiral staircase in his design, which leads visitors from the public level into the library, but the openness of the staircase, means it is effectively an open plan building.
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When Piers designed the exterior of the venue, he knew he wanted something striking to clad the unusual inverted pyramid shape. He chose aluminium sheets, anodised in a light bronze with sequined perforations, providing the pyramid with sculptural appeal and striking visual effects. Piers continued: “It’s an incredible, breath- taking use of space, both inside and out, and has all that you could need under one roof. You could find yourself learning in the morning, listening to a poetry performance at lunchtime, studying in the afternoon, watching first class theatre at night, and then relaxing in the cafe after that.” The new ‘super library’ cost in the region of £14 million to build, and a portion of that budget was spent on a state-of-the-art PA system from TOA. Technical Sales Manager for TOA, Ian Bridgewater, said: “TOA worked with the consulting engineers, Hoare Lea, on the system design and the loudspeaker layout. Hoare Lea, sent us a system schematic, which we designed the TOA system around, this was then used as the template for the design and then went out to tender based on the TOA system.” TOA supplied the sound system to PHF Electrical of Bishop Stortford and the installation was then completed by Inviron. The acoustican for the project was Sandy Brown Associates. For a sound system that is generally only used for announcements, and very occasionally for playing music, it was certainly a large specification. A total of 61 speakers were supplied, 30 TOA BS-
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