Junction, a new Arts & Civic Centre for Goole opened in November 2009. It integrates a 173-person auditorium, workshop, foyer and café, council chamber/community room and offices into a compact, flexible building. Due to budgetary constraints and for sustainable reasons, the scheme reuses the foundations and steel portal frame of the existing 1980s market building creating an external performance space and covered areas for market stalls. A central section of the roof is raised to accommodate cinema projection, giving the building a greater civic presence and signifying the entrance. The addition of a canopy along the street provides shelter and space for traders to pitch stalls. Above, the building is reclad in charcoal grey cement panels. The sculptural geometry of the building is derived from shape of the street. The design seeks to forge links between the arts and commerce, and between the high street and recently completed nearby shopping centre. In so doing the Arts & Civic Centre taps into the everyday life of Goole and become an integral part of its culture and identity.