Practice makes perfect and never more so than at the Lanterns Children's Centre in Winchester, where the design team did seven feasibility studies on sites around the city before finding the right location.
The continual honing of ideas produced a stunning building which not only featured as a case study in Sure Start's early years design guide before the foundations had been laid, but also won the prestigious Partners in Excellence: Building for Sure Start award.
'I love this building,' says head of centre Olivia Peak. 'We were very conscious that we wanted the building to still look good in 30 to 50 years'
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