Ravensbourne College London, Greenwich Education Building Photos, Foreign Office Architects
Ravensbourne College London Building
Greenwich Architecture in southeast London design by FOA, England, UK
12 Apr 2014 – new larger photos added to this page, key building by FOA – Ravensbourne College, London:
photograph © Benedict Luxmoore
photo : Morley von Sternberg
19 May 2011
Ravensbourne College London Building News
RIBA Award winner, 19 May 2011
Design: Foreign Office Architects
photographs © Benedict Luxmoore
The new building is in giddy proximity to the Dome/O2/North Greenwich Arena, which sets up an unavoidable clash of scale and geometry. The relatively standard programme could have produced a building that could not converse let alone compete with its neighbour.
photo : Morley von Sternberg
FOA’s design blurs the internal arrangements behind a homogenous façade, much as the Dome does, but in a very different, very confident and curiously complementary way. It juxtaposes a plane of white fabric with a plane of tessellated panels, which somehow takes away all conventional understanding of solid, void and scale.
photo : Morley von Sternberg
Internally a split level section is separated by the atria and reconnected by bridges and floor trays. The voids sporadically connect but bottom-out at different levels, informing a clear hierarchy and creating real spatial drama.
photographs © Benedict Luxmoore
Ravensbourne College London – Building Information
Location: Penrose Way, Greenwich, London SE10
Architect: Foreign Office Architects
Client: Ravensbourne in Partnership with Meridian Delta
Contractor: Bovis Lend Lease
Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor
Contract Value: £43m
Date of completion: Sep 2010
Gross internal area: 21,500 sqm
Previously:
Ravensbourne College Building
Architects: Foreign Office Architects
Greenwich further education building photos by Morley von Sternberg, Jun 2010:
Client: Ravensbourne in partnership with Greenwich Peninsula Regeneration Limited
Completion date: 2010
Total Area: 21,500m2
Budget: £70m including technical fit-out
Location: close to O2, former Millennium Dome, southeast London
Address: Peninsula Square, Greenwich Peninsula, Bromley, London
Developer: Meridian Delta
Key Feature: ceramic facade based on a geometric formula
Other designers: DEGW interior design
images : Glowfrog Studios
Address: Ravensbourne, 6 Penrose Way, London SE10 0EW, England, UK
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