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New Carnegie Library building wins top design award

Dunfermline Carnegie Library.
Dunfermline Carnegie Library.

Dunfermline’s newest library has been named as the best building in Scotland.

Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries was awarded the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland’s (RIAS) Andrew Doolan prize from a shortlist of 12 projects.

The new building, an extension to the world’s first Carnegie library, houses a museum, gallery spaces, café and shop

Dunfermline Carnegie Library, which first opened in 1883, closed from 2014 until May of this year while the new wing was constructed at its rear.

Edinburgh-based Richard Murphy Architects, which designed the £12.4m building, received £25,000.

The award was founded in 2002 by Scottish architect Andrew Doolan, who died in 2004.

The prize was presented by Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop, alongside the late Mr Doolan’s mother Margaret, at a ceremony in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh on Tuesday night.

Ms Hyslop said the shortlist illustrated “the continuing excellence of new architecture in Scotland”.

She added: “The quality of the winner and of all the shortlisted projects illustrate that we are building a future heritage in Scotland that we can truly be proud of.”

The library beat 11 rival projects including City of Glasgow College and five private homes.

The judges for the award were Stewart Henderson, RIAS president, Prof Sue Roaf, retired professor of architectural engineering at Heriot-Watt University, and Susie Stirling from the Scottish government’s planning & architecture department.

In their comments on the library, they said: “External materials are sandstone, oak and Corten steel, acknowledging the town’s industrial heritage and the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, after whom the building is named.

“The circulation ‘architectural promenade’ offers key views of significant historic buildings, culminating in a cube window framing views of the abbey.”