Meir Youth Cafe

Location: Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
Client: Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Contract Value: £500,000
Completion: 2003

In 2002, Stoke-on-Trent City Council appointed the practice to design a new community facility comprising an internet cafe, crèche, training, meeting and activity spaces on a prominent corner site within the City.

The building form developed following extensive consultation with the community and design team. Key factors included building with very tight site constraints and responding to the site context which included several buildings of varying scale on a prominent corner.

The building was opened in 2003 and provides essential services for the community.