{"id":14471,"date":"2019-11-05T11:51:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/?p=14471"},"modified":"2023-12-11T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T12:50:19","slug":"civic-trust-awards-regional-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/civic-trust-awards-regional-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Templeman Library: 2020 Civic Trust Awards Regional Finalist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Templeman Library has been selected as a 2020 Civic Trust Awards Regional Finalist!<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2019\/11\/CivicTrustAwards_regional-finalist-2020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14474 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2019\/11\/CivicTrustAwards_regional-finalist-2020-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2019\/11\/CivicTrustAwards_regional-finalist-2020-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2019\/11\/CivicTrustAwards_regional-finalist-2020.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Templeman Library has been coined the heart of the Canterbury Campus. Sitting in the middle of campus, with some of the best views across the city, it&#8217;s a hub for finding books and resources and studying alike.<\/p>\n<p>The extension and refurbishment project was a challenge undertaken by Information Services and architects at Penoyre &amp; Prasad which aimed to transform the library into a 21st century flagship learning environment by refurbishing the existing building, as well as extending to allow room for even more resources, study spaces and other learning facilities. To add a new lecture theatre, seminar rooms, exhibition space, archive area, conference facilities, more study space and new caf\u00e9, a huge 5,400m\u00b2 extension was constructed. The building also got a new welcome hall, plus upgraded windows and fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.civictrustawards.org.uk\/news\/2019-regional-finalists-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Civic Trust Awards<\/a>\u00a0aims to encourage the very best in architecture and environmental design, to improve the built environment for us all through design, sustainability, inclusiveness and accessibility, but also to reward projects that offer a positive cultural, social, economic or environmental benefit to their local communities.<\/p>\n<p>Our project will now be considered for a National Award or Commendation by the National Judging Panel.\u00a0This year we have also been shortlisted in the Outstanding Library Team category of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/kent-shortlisted-for-outstanding-library-team-in-the-awards-2019\/\">Times Higher Education (THE) Awards<\/a>, as well as the \u2018Medium and Large Libraries\u2019 category within the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/templeman-library-shortlisted-for-library-design-award\/\">SCONUL Library Design Awards<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Templeman Library has been selected as a 2020 Civic Trust Awards Regional Finalist! The Templeman Library has been coined the heart of the Canterbury &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/civic-trust-awards-regional-finalist\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46900,"featured_media":14486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[980,10267,10269],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14471"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22439,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14471\/revisions\/22439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}