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Peckham Square, with Will Alsop’s library at the centre, McAslan’s Peckham Arch to the right, beside Peckham High Street, and Turner Works’ Mountview Academy to the far left
Spheron Architects has won a competition to remodel the square outside Will Alsop’s Stirling Prize-winning Peckham Library.
The architect, which has offices in Clapham and Accra, Ghana, beat a shortlist of three emerging practices to land the £6m Peckham Square project.
Southwark council was heavily criticised last year for putting together a 110-strong architecture framework worth £500m with almost no BAME-led practices, despite a quarter of the borough’s residents identifying as black. A revised framework is due out this spring.