Winner Colyer-Fergusson Building Canterbury, Kent

摘要

University of Kent's Colyer-Fergusson Building provides facilities for its thriving extra-curricular music programme. It contains a concert hall large enough for a full orchestra, choir and audience of 350, a generous foyer, practice rooms, offices, and storage and technical spaces. Natural timber has been used to finish the interior of the building; while the outside consists of flint-faced blocks and bronze powder-coated windows. Tim Ronalds Architects employed timber throughout the public spaces to provide the warmth and acoustic qualities conducive to music. Canadian Douglas fir was chosen for its colour and vitality throughout, except on the floors where the hardness of oak was needed.