This
is a very unique project for Cunningham Architects in the opportunity to
convert an old water pump station into a public space used to hold social
functions and art work. Our concept was
to make the new interventions to the buildings very distinct and deliberate
from the existing industrial context.
The roughness and imprecision of the existing brick pump house and the
sunken concrete water holding tanks are made more visible by the new, precise
additions such as the glass floors inside and the cantilevered second floor
balcony.