The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
MICA completes Rambert Ballet School extension in Twickenham
The building, near the River Thames, provides additional dance studio space for teaching and practice to accommodate increased student numbers
Education
The latest completed buildings from the education sector: schools, universities, nurseries and colleges
Holt Architecture and GKA complete ‘sky garden’ for inner-London school
The brightly painted, timber-clad ‘sky garden’ for the London Enterprise Academy in Whitechapel, east London, provides the school – a converted office building – with outdoor play space
Rivington Street Studio completes Silvertown secondary school
Situated at the heart of an emerging community in east London’s Royal Docks, Oasis Academy Silvertown is a secondary school for up to 600 students
Wright & Wright completes decade-long library project at St John’s, Oxford
Redevelopment at St John’s College has included the Library and Study Centre (2019), and now concludes with the restoration and environmental upgrade of two further historic libraries
LDS completes student housing and research facility in Olympic Park
One Pool Street, a pair of 13- and 17-storey towers accommodating over 550 student rooms, is part of the first phase of the new UCL East campus, together with Marshgate by Stanton Williams
Stanton Williams’ UCL East scheme opens its doors to students
Stanton Williams has completed the 35,000m² Marshgate, part of the first phase of University College London’s (UCL) new 4.5ha campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Central Somers Town: under siege by wealth on all sides
Adam Khan Architects and Hayhurst and Co have completed a community hub and a primary/nursery school, the two buildings in Phase 1 of Camden Council’s regeneration of Central Somers Town, masterplanned by DSDHA
TODD Architects completes redbrick business school for Queen’s Belfast
Queen’s University’s £17.5 million business school sits within its south Belfast campus, in front of the Grade II-listed Riddel Hall and enclosed by woodland
Levitt Bernstein completes UAL Wimbledon College of Arts campus refit
Levitt Bernstein has completed the £10 million reworking and ‘rationalisation’ of the UAL College of Arts campus in Wimbledon
Hollaway Studio completes Benenden School music school and concert halls
Hollaway Studio has completed a new concert hall, described as ‘a musical instrument in its own right’, together with a recital hall and music school, for Benenden school in Kent