May 2010 site visit to our new building. It is built on Environmentally Sustainable Design Principles and opens to the public in August 2010. The building houses the library, Child Health Clinic, large Community Meeting Rooms and the Peppermint Grove Shire Offices. Features include solar panels, thermal maze, storm water reuse, waterless urinals, solar passive orientation, bio filtering and rainwater tanks. Inside will be a cafe, separate children's storytime room, free wifi, public access computers, four large screens with cable TV and video displays, four spaces for presentations with dataprojectors and screens, quiet study area, adaptive technology for people with disabilities, community history space, sustainability information, community education classes and friendly, knowledgable welcoming staff.

1. The Grove. Leading, Learning, Living May 2010

3. North side

4. Solar panels

8. South West Corner

9. Cafe entry

11. Library entrance

13. Donnybrook stone on entrance walls

15. Waterless Urinals

17. Community Room Courtyard

19. Community Rooms

20. Room divider

21. Kitchen facilities

23. Cafe window

24. Cafe window

27. View from cafe

29. Skylight

31. Staff workroom

32. Community Meeting Room

33. Community History

34. Quiet study room

36. Manager of Library Services Office

38. Staff workroom

40. Quiet study area

44. Storytime area

46. To the storytime deck

47. North West corner

55. Rainwater tank