Hayhurst & Co has won RIBA’s competition to design a new educational facility at 66 Portland Place.

The practice beat AOC Architecture, Coffey Architects, Delvendahl Martin Architects and Featherstone Young to design the Clore Learning Centre.

The brief asked entrants to design a dedicated learning centre in the grade II* listed building where the RIBA will be able to offer hands-on, creative activities to diverse audiences. Its learning programme currently reaches 10,000 people a year across the country and this could double that by 2021.

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