Feix&Merlin Walworth Town Hall revamp approved
1/36 The former reference library will be given a new lease of life.
2/36 The new public café/lobby next to Walworth Square. Contrasted patterns on the floor and walls denote the previous locations of
walls and walkways, which the curved zoning structures also follow.
4/36 The former debating chamber re-imagined as a coworking and events space. The design for the balustrade takes its inspiration
from the design of the original gallery balustrade lost in the fire.
6/36 A new first floor terrace will connect the buildings together to create shared spaces and foster collaboration.
7/36 Walworth Town Hall featuring a new entrance onto the new civic space at Walworth Square.
Source: Darc Studio
Source: Darc Studio
Source: Darc Studio
Source: Darc Studio
Source: Darc Studio
Construction is expected to start in the second half of next year after plans to turn a grade II-listed former town hall and library building in south London into a community hub were given the green light by Southwark planners last week.
Walworth Town Hall was hit by a blaze seven years ago and has been vacant ever since.
But plans to give the site on Walworth Road and the neighbouring Newington Library a new lease of life were submitted over the summer by Marylebone developer General Projects, which is behind Buckley Gray Yeoman’s makeover of James Stirling’s grade II -listed One Poultry – the City landmark completed by John Laing in 1997.