WORCESTER’S flagship new library and history centre is taking shape just six months after construction started.

Work on the city centre site is on target, with the strongroom for the new records office currently being built.

The centre, which is a joint project by the University of Worcester and Worcestershire County Council, is not only the first library of its kind in Europe, serving the public and academic users, but is also already an award winner winning the International Bentley Be Inspired Innovation award in Generative Design last October.

Kathy Kirk, a member of the project’s service development board, said: “This will be a flagship for Worcestershire and the whole region. The excellent range of facilities in the centre – a fantastic joint public and university library, exhibition spaces, conference facilities and meeting rooms, as well as a children’s library the size of a small primary school – will be able to benefit everyone in the county.

Anne Hannaford, also a member of the service development board, said: “There will be something for everyone in this fantastic new facility. It will be a real community space with the chance to access a host of resources, including university texts and journals never previously available to the public.

“Along with the university’s neighbouring development at Castle Street, the library and history centre will also help to regenerate the St Clement’s area of the city.”