Registrars Office & Marriage Room – Bury Town Hall (1994)

At the bottom of a light well, crisscrossed with large service ducts above a space – a hostile place that also gives access to a truck-size safe. The space had cold-cast Georgian-wired glass down on a long wall to the corridor – an uninviting space for marriages.

The design is focused on the lucky couple, with the ceiling and floor pattern focused on the point of marriage. The waiting room had to work around other large ducts in the same space – this was solved by generating a bent plasterboard wall to one side of the available space.

A new service hatch was also provided for the Births Marriages and Death Registers office.

A level approach was also required for wheelchair access from the exterior.