Completed in 2020 in United Kingdom. Images by Will Pryce. The Woods Bagot London Studio has put the finishing touches on a beautiful new library at the heart of the St Mary’s Calne School campus in.
Woods Bagot tops school library with tree-like timber ceiling
Woods Bagot has completed a library building at a girls boarding school in Wiltshire, England, that features a faceted wooden ceiling designed to evoke spreading tree branches.
Woods Bagot s London studio designed the library for a plot at the heart of the St Mary s Calne School campus, where it looks out onto an orchard and the school s century-old buildings.
Top: Woods Bagot designed the library for St Mary s Calne School. Above: clerestory windows sit atop a pale brick facade.
The two-storey library is intended to provide an inspirational hub for learning that motivates the pupils and encourages socialising alongside dedicated study.
Woods Bagot completes library with ‘floating’ timber roof for Wiltshire school
10 February 2021 By Fran Williams. Photography by Will Pryce
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Source: Woods Bagot
Source: Woods Bagot
The London arm of Woods Bagot has completed a 660m
2 new library for St Mary’s Calne School in Wiltshire featuring a striking roof form
The library, which hopes to open later this year, will form a hub for the school’s campus, also incorporating the adjacent apple orchard.
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St Mary’s Calne is a private boarding and day school for girls, founded in 1873. Woods Bagot was commissioned in 2017 to design the two-storey library facility.