FaulknerBrowns completes "hall for the city" in Sunderland

A 23-tonne metal staircase rises through a glazed atrium at the centre of Sunderland's City Hall, referencing the region's rich history of industrial craftsmanship.
Completed by local practice FaulknerBrowns, the project is one of the first buildings delivered in the Riverside Sunderland masterplan, which will create 1,000 homes, a school, nurseries, offices and civic buildings across a 32-hectare site in the city.
FaulknerBrowns, which was tasked with combining office spaces that integrated var