Completion of the £2.0 million Sunbeams Music Centre marks a significant milestone in an extraordinary journey for Sunbeams Music Trust and Newcastle based MawsonKerr Architects.

© Simon Kennedy Photography

Architects: MawsonKerr Architects

Location: Penrith, United Kingdom

Architect In Charge: Will Mawson

Area: 600.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Simon Kennedy Photography

Client: Sunbeams Music Trust

Main Contractor: Thomas Armstrong Construction Ltd

Structural Engineer: JS Engineering

Cost Consultant : Johnstons

Acoustic Consultant: DACS

Service Engineers: JH Partners
© Simon Kennedy Photography

Completion of the £2.0 million Sunbeams Music Centre marks a significant milestone in an extraordinary journey for Sunbeams Music Trust and Newcastle based MawsonKerr Architects.

© Simon Kennedy Photography

This journey began 12 years ago as a university thesis project for MawsonKerr director Will Mawson then studying the charity for his final year project at Newcastle University; in an unusual turn of events this became a live project following unanimous approval by the board of trustees.

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Established in 1992, Sunbeams Music Trust deliver their 'Music For Life' programme to tens of thousands of needing members of society e...