Haworth Tompkins has submitted new proposals for a six-storey annex at the Old Vic theatre in south London to planners at Lambeth council.

The practice’s plans would replace an existing three-storey building at the rear of the grade II*-listed theatre with an “exemplar” low-carbon extension, incorporating a timber frame, natural ventilation and solar shading formed of repurposed theatre lighting components.

Haworth Tompkins, which won the 2014 Stirling Prize for its Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, said the Old Vic Annex was designed to be a “welcoming destination for the local community as well as a much-needed expansion of the theatre’s working and engagement spaces”.

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