Wonderful new library at Canada Water

On Friday 2nd December I visited the new Southwark library at Canada Water.
First impressions: Looks like a huge wooden ark just ready to float away ...
Inside - smells new. I love that smell.Then there is the centre piece of the library the wooden spiral staircase that is a work of art in its own right. It's really an enormous wide spiral that you can also use to to climb up to the library. And the place sings with colour - ochres and crimsons and lime greens - a wonderful piece of imagination. There is a performance space, a learning space,  a cafe, windows that open to an outside space and at the heart of it all the library itself with BOOKS! Bravo Southwark in this time of cut backs and austerity you have had the courage to open a place that gladdens the imagination. I had a great time telling my book Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain to two visiting schools. I look forward to visiting again