Marrickville Library BVN
Built on the land of the Gadigal and Wangal peoples of the Eora nation
Walking up Marrickville Road from the tiny pork-roll shop, you’ll come to the big zigzag roof of the Marrickville Library by BVN. It sits up on telegraph poles, the amplitude of its gables attenuating away from you even as the frequency of the poles tightens. There’s a red pillar box restored in gilt and brilliant red, a tiny civic monument to love letters and bills.
The new library in Sydney’s Inner West has already been celebrated, winning the NSW Premier’s Prize, the Milo Dunphy Award for Sustainable Architecture and an Award for Public Architecture at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2020 NSW Architecture Awards. These are recognition of the design and vindication for decades of advocacy, preservation and
