Corby Hub

• Location:

  Northamptonshire UK

• Site Area:

  1.75 Hectares

• Client:

  Catalyst Corby
  Corby Borough Council
  English Partnerships

• Architects:

  Hawkins Brown

• Engineers:

  Adams Kara Taylor
  Max Fordham LLP

• Project value:

  £34 million

Catalyst Corby is the regeneration initiative for Corby town centre. The project establishes a new civic heart for the town and Borough through the creation of a 21st Century Town Hall with Arts Forum with a new town square [The Hub].

This urban square provides a place of welcome and a new sense of community focus for the town. It is a simple, flexible space, humanly scaled and open to adaptation for differing uses through the year. It establishes a green connection to the adjoining ancient woodland and links the Cube building to the new swimming pool. It responds to the notion of civic pride through a reinterpretation of traditional formal planting displays and the commissioning of public art.

The Hub also forms a primary component of the Corby Walk. This provides a strategic urban link across the town, connecting the principle civic spaces and public facilities with Corby’s existing woodland and new rail station.