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We are delighted to find out that our Leeds Library project has been shortlisted for the Leeds Architecture Awards 2025 in the Adapted Buildings and Conservation category.
It’s quite a low key job, in that it’s a small and simple refurbishment of the existing commercial unit next door to the main Leeds Library building.
However, the impact has been quite the opposite.
We’ve helped create valuable extra space for the library to grow into and improved the accessibility into and around the library - enabling everyone to see this remarkable space.
Sustainability was also an important goal with significant thermal improvements made to the building fabric and low energy mechanical and electrical systems utilised throughout.
We are really happy with the impact of the altered/enhanced frontage on Commercial Street. It was a really simple conversion, a pastiche echoing back to the original 200 year old building.
Passers by may not even be aware of the changes – it quietly sits there, between beautiful historic buildings, repairing the fabric of the streetscape.
We are really pleased with that - architecture doesn’t always have to be new and shiny to make a difference.
The Leeds Architecture Awards are being held in November and for those wishing to see the exhibition of all of the shortlisted and nominated projects it is being held over the coming weeks at the Leeds Corn Exchange.
