Local architecture studio Squire & Partners has created an elongated, black community centre in a park alongside the Brixton Windmill in London.
Named the Brixton Windmill Centre, the building stands in the small Windmill Gardens park in south London next to the city's last working windmill.
Squire & Partners designed the building to complement the 200-year-old, Grade II*-listed windmill.
Squire & Partners designed the Brixton Windmill Centre
"The architectural aim was really to completely make the windmill comfortable," explained Tim Gledstone, partner at Squire & Partners.
"It was always an object building by the very nature of its function," he told Dezeen. "But what was strange to us is putting any buildings back into parkland is slightly against policy. However, this park exists because of the windmill." The community centre was built in Windmill Gardens
The architecture studio designed the long, single-storey building so that it doesn't compete with the tar-sealed windmill and as a nod towards the previous buildings that surrounded the mill.
As some of these buildings were only knocked down in the 1960s, their previous locations were known to the studio and played a part in winning planning permission to build the centre in a park.
Materials and colour are taken from the windmill
"What was clear to us was that all the supporting buildings of the windmill from its original days were missing. It had the miller's h...