The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
NVB completes academic hub and drama studio at Hertfordshire school
This 5,000m2 development for The Haberdashers’ Boys’ School in Elstree is part of an ongoing phased masterplan and consists of two buildings and new landscaped courtyard
Education
The latest completed buildings from the education sector: schools, universities, nurseries and colleges
Avanti completes housing and special needs school for Lewisham Council
The development in Sydenham, south-east London, provides 26 homes for families with temporary housing needs and six assisted living units as well as a specialist school
Delve transforms east London commercial unit into nursery
The Nest is the conversion of a vacant commercial unit into a nursery in Royal Wharf, east London
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
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