Hayhurst & Co’s educational facility at the RIBA’s Portland Place headquarters opens this week with a half-term Festival of Learning.

The practice won the job of designing the Clore Learning Centre in a competition whose shortlist featured AOC Architecture, Coffey Architects, Delvendahl Martin Architects and Featherstone Young.

The brief was for a dedicated learning centre in the grade II* building where the RIBA could offer hands-on, creative activities to diverse audiences. The institute hopes to double the reach of its learning programme from 10,000 people a year by 2021.

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