Construction began on site in February, and project staff as well as pupils from Our Lady Queen of Peace Primary School joined Professor David Green of the University, and Dr. George Lord of the County Council, on site to celebrate.
WLHC won the international Bentley Be Inspired Innovation in Generative Design in October last year, and was shortlisted for Best Designed Project and for Best Local Government Project Team in the Public-Private Finance awards in April.
The MLA grant has enabled the Record Office and Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service (WHEAS) to create an interesting day programme which links in with school curriculums at both Keystage 2 and 3 levels, and to fund equipment needed for these activities.
A firm of architects who won an award for their work on the Worcester Library and History Centre has donated its prize money to a Worcestershire youth project.
Schoolchildren were given a close-up inspection of the site of the new Worcester Library and History Centre during a special event to mark the start of building work.
Europe’s first fully-integrated public and university library will be a model of the new era of libraries called for by Culture Minister Margaret Hodge yesterday (1st December).
The Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service have planned a day of presentations and of workshops around the findings of the excavations on the site of the Worcester Library & History Cetre.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Worcestershire County Council's Cabinet will meet next week to decide on which private company will be asked to build the pioneering Worcester Library and History Centre.
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 Worcestershire County Council and the University of Worcester are inviting members of the public to an excavation at the future Worcester Library and History Centre site.
A special project that will see members of the public being given the chance to roll up their sleeves and help unearth Worcester's past has officially started.
A groundbreaking £60million Library and History Centre for Worcester will move a step closer to reality with the start of initial demolition works, later this month (June).
