Design prize won by Enfield Town Library (From Enfield Independent)

Design prize won by Enfield Town Library

9:30am Friday 21st January 2011 in Top Stories By Tristan Kirk

AN Enfield landmark which was restored and modernised last year has won a top design prize.

Enfield Town Library last night scooped the Best Built Project award at the London Planning Awards after the 100-year-old building underwent a major revamp last year.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson, handing out the award at City Hall, praised the “bold and successful architectural intervention” that brought a “real sense of town centre renewal”.

The refurbishment of the library was a joint project between Enfield Council and Shepheard Epstein Hunter Architects, with a £5m investment.

The library was reopened in March last year after 18 months of work by former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion.