Brick cultural centre evokes "historic grain of Hertford's town centre"

UK studios Bennetts Associates and Citizens Design Bureau have completed a cluster of textured brick volumes to house the BEAM cultural centre in Hertford, England.

Located alongside the River Lea, the buildings extend a 1970s theatre that has a hexagonal plan and oast house-like fly tower that references the matings that historically defined the area.

Bennetts Associates restored the existing auditorium and supplementing it with new areas including cinemas, a studio theatre and events spaces...