Spheron Architects has won a competition to remodel the square outside Will Alsop’s Stirling Prize-winning Peckham Library.

The architect, which has offices in Clapham and Accra, Ghana, beat a shortlist of three emerging practices to land the £6m Peckham Square project.

Southwark council was heavily criticised last year for putting together a 110-strong architecture framework worth £500m without a single BAME-led practice, despite a quarter of the borough’s residents identifying as black. A revised framework is due out this spring.

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