Clocktower Walkabout with Architect Mick Timpson

Join Mick Timpson, the original architect of the Clocktower building, including the Central Library, for a guided tour as part of the Open House The tour will provided unique insight into the building's design strategy, including the design of the Children’s library, the reason for the curved wall, how the glazed roof works, collaborating with an artist, the materials chosen to work with the original town hall, the creation of the cinema and how the new section came in under the Braithwaite Hall to make the entrance. how a detailed design response was developed which carefully balanced together Croydon as a place, the history and character of the original town hall, and the role of the library to help establish a new sense of place, centre and identity in the town.