| New Cultural Quarter
The team designed the winning entry for the Millennium funded cultural quarter for the City of Durham.
The design concept was to create a new civic terrace for the 500 seat Gala Hall, Clayport Library and Community Resource Centres. This elevated terrace has views down to the River Wear and the new Riverside Park. The Hall sits in pride of place visible from the main vehicular approach to the city centre. The Clayport Library and the Community Resource Centre heal the existing frontages, creating an entry into the new Millennium Square. The square will be linked to the new park by a pedestrian route down a cascade of steps passing between new leisure facilities on the Walkergate site.
The Gala Hall is an adaptable auditorium equipped for BBC broadcasting. The Hall accommodates modes of use from theatre, lectures and cabaret to banquets and exhibitions. The seating is on air pallets for ease of reconfiguration and the hall is equipped with the latest electronic acoustic architecture.
A multi-storey car park will lie under the landscaped terraces that lead to the riverside and new footbridge to the opposite bank. The project creates important new pedestrian links providing safe and convenient desire line footpaths for residents and extending the network of tourist routes within the city centre, thus helping to enliven this previously derelict area of Durham.
Neil Deely and David Prichard have carried out two masterplan studies for the City, looking at over twenty sites and advising on their possible contribution to the regeneration of Durham.
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The City of Durham
£19m
2002
GC Works
Building Design 09.08.02
Urban Design Quarterly
Oct
97
David Prichard, Tim Peake, Neil Deely and Team
@ MJP
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