Woods Bagot tops school library with "tree-like" timber ceiling

Woods Bagot has completed a library building at a girls' boarding school in Wiltshire, England, that features a faceted wooden ceiling designed to evoke spreading tree branches.
Woods Bagot's London studio designed the library for a plot at the heart of the St Mary's Calne School campus, where it looks out onto an orchard and the school's century-old buildings.
Top: Woods Bagot designed the library for Mary's Calne School. Above: clerestory windows sit atop a pale brick facade.
The two-storey li