The jury were unanimous in praising the architects’ deferential approach to the site as a whole, their confident integration of hard and soft landscaping around the pavilion and their inventive detailing with appropriate materials.
RIBA
Peace Park
LeicestershireA small but elegant pavilion revitalised the Peace Memorial Park in a village outside Leicester. Its accommodation draws together the park’s established uses and offered potential for new ones, while its shape mediates between the rigid rectilinear geometry of a bowling green and the flowing pathways around it.
The pavilion houses the enlarged bowling club, and a communal space which can be used for club and society meetings as well as a gallery for displaying local themes. The combination of a linear canopy and circular building, living and inanimate materials, hard and soft landscape all help to initiate a new set of experiences and possibilities.
RIBA Award 2001
Civic Trust Award 2003