Gladstone's Library
Hawarden, United Kingdom 2018–2020
Client: Gladstone’s Library Grade I listed Competition, first prize
Gladstone's Library, founded by William Gladstone in 1889, is the UK’s only Prime Ministerial Library. The project to expand facilities at the Grade I listed institution aims to promote wider engagement with the liberal values that lay at the heart of Gladstone’s life and work; it involves the creation of a new building as well as work to historic interiors and the surrounding landscape.
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Caruso St John have won the competition to restore and expand Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, North Wales.
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Location
Hawarden, United Kingdom
Date
2018–present
Client
Gladstone’s Library
Heritage status
Grade I listed
Area
200 m² renovation
600 m² new build
Caruso St John Architects
Adam Caruso, Peter St John
Project architects
Fabienne Sommer, Catija Christensson
Structural engineer
Alan Baxter
Services engineer
Max Fordham
Cost consultant
SP Projects
Landscape architect
Jonathan Cook
Heritage consultant
Alan Baxter
Visualisations
Fabienne Sommer
Nora Walter (exteriors)
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