Citizen Machinery UK’s new centre of excellence in Dudley, West Midlands provides a showroom for the display of machine tools, an international conference area and a customer training school. The steel-framed building provides a double height space with cranage to enable large machines to be installed and demonstrated in a working environment. The building has been designed to complement the precision engineering of the company’s products in its use of metal cladding and a sophisticated curtain walling system. The glazed areas provide a high degree of natural light and views into the showroom.