The Northampton Rooms, 2025

Giles Round, The Northampton Rooms, 2025

Design of a new artist-led civic, social, and educational space comprising a community kitchen, reading room, café-bar, and co-working and learning hub, as a permanent, additional offer to Arts Collective’s expanded programme. The work was developed through a deep engagement with people and place. The commission draws inspiration from the particular architectures of Northampton, weaving in references to town landmarks including 78 Derngate, The Guildhall, and Mounts Baths. The resulting spaces are welcoming for local residents, students, and NNCA’s community of studio artists. They will facilitate artistic practice and creative conversations between studios and galleries, recognising social activity and community gathering as vital parts of generating creative and artistic visibility in towns.


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