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Carmody Groarke

British Library at Boston Spa . Leeds

Carmody Groarke . renders: © SLAB

The masterplan for the national repository of the British Library, at Boston Spa in West Yorkshire, is driven by the urgent need for more space for the British Library’s growing print collection. The 44-acre campus, formerly a Second World War munitions factory, is home to more than three-quarters of the Library’s collection of over 170 million items. In the last ten years around 7 million physical items have been added to the Library’s archives; requiring about 8km of new shelving annually. By the end of this decade the current storage facilities are projected to be full. Continue reading Carmody Groarke

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New Special Exhibitions Gallery . Manchester

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Carmody Groarke . photos: © Gilbert McCarragher . + AJ

The gallery is located on the lower ground floor of the New Warehouse, a Grade II listed structure, dating back to the 1880s. In the coming years, the museum aims to create stronger site-wide orientation and access between the existing historic buildings and spaces and its network of Victorian railway viaducts. The Special Exhibitions Gallery project creates a new visitor route, which links the Lower Yard with the busiest levels of the museum above. It also opens-up public access as a gallery space to this part of the museum’s globally significant site for the first time. Continue reading Carmody Groarke

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Grossmarkt Theatre Pavilion . Hamburg

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Carmody Groarke . photos: © Johan Dehlin

Carmody Groarke has designed a circular aluminium pavilion that will provide hospitality for a 1700-seat temporary theatre built within Hamburg’s Grossmarkt structure. The heritage listed market building was designed by Bernhard Hermkes and built between 1958-1960. As one of Germany’s busiest fresh produce markets the Grossmarkt turns over 1.5 million tonnes of goods per year, operating 24 hours a day. Continue reading Carmody Groarke