Ravensbourne College London, Greenwich Education Building, Foreign Office Architects, Design

Ravensbourne College, London : Architecture Information

Greenwich building, southeast London - design by FOA



Ravensbourne College London - Building Information

RIBA Award winner, 19 May 2011

Design: Foreign Office Architects

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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. 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.

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.

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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

RIBA Awards

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Ravensbourne College building

Architects: Foreign Office Architects

Photos by Morley von Sternberg, Jun 2010:

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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

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Morley von Sternberg : www.vonsternberg.com

Developer: Meridian Delta

Key Feature: ceramic facade based on a geometric formula

Other designers: DEGW interior design

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images : Glowfrog Studios

Address: Ravensbourne, 6 Penrose Way, London SE10 0EW

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