Weston at 10

21.03.25

In March 2025, we celebrate the Weston Library in Oxford’s 10-year anniversary.

One of the University’s Bodleian Libraries, the Weston is home to its special collections. It is a working library and research centre, and a public event and exhibition space.

Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott between 1937 and 1940, and originally named the New Bodleian Library, WilkinsonEyre were architects for the library’s complete renovation and rethink which completed in 2015.

In this short film, WilkinsonEyre Founding Director Jim Eyre is in conversation with our client and the project’s champion, Richard Ovenden - Bodley’s Librarian and the Helen Hamlyn Director of the University Libraries. Together they revisit the project and discuss its success, which has seen it transformed from a closed, impermeable book store to the accessible cultural hub it is today, welcoming members of the University and the public alike.

In celebration of this anniversary, the Weston is hosting a number of activities this weekend, including an architectural tour of the building by WilkinsonEyre's Associate Director, Geoff Turner.

See the Bodleian website for more information.

Weston Library

At the heart of Oxford’s historic core, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s 1940s, Grade II listed, New Bodleian Library (now known as the Weston Library) is once more a vital resource for academic research.

London South Bank University, LSBU Hub

WilkinsonEyre has radically transformed London South Bank University’s London Road building to create the LSBU Hub, an open and inviting centrepiece for its main Southwark campus.

Interior spiral stairwell of the Wellcome Centre

Wellcome Collection

Wellcome Trust launched Wellcome Collection in 2007, based in the Trust’s former 1930s headquarters in central London, providing a forum for the public to explore the connections between medicine, life and art.