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| Birkenhead Park Pavilion for Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council |
A Visitor Centre, café and offices, the £1.2 million Birkenhead Park Pavilion funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund serves as an Information Centre for local events in and around the Grade 1 Listed public park. Birkenhead Park was designed by Joseph Paxton between 1843 and 1857, and was the first municipal park in the world and the model for New York's Central Park. The new Pavilion is a landmark building that reflects the design technologies of today, that uses its orientation to advantage to make the best use of ambient energy and green construction strategies to make it environmentally friendly and sustainable. It is also designed in the tradition of garden buildings – like orangeries and palm houses, where the external landscape extends into the interior and the building provides a setting for enjoying the landscape beyond. The new Park Pavilion is designed to compliment the park’s unique quality, and will help to develop and sustain the use of the park by providing attractive and pleasant spaces for a range of activities. Completed – summer 2005 | |||||||||
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