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

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Greenwich building, southeast London - design by FOA

Ravensbourne College London - Building Information 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. 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. 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 Previously: Ravensbourne College building Architects: Foreign Office Architects 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 Morley von Sternberg : www.vonsternberg.com 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 Ravensbourne College London images / information from Foreign Office Architects

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