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BUSINESS AND MATHS BROUGHT TOGETHER IN KENT
New London primary underway
The University of Kent is investing in a new £20 million campus facility for its business school and school of mathematics, statistics and actuarial science. Lecture theatre, seminar spaces, Bloomberg suite, cafe and social learning spaces are organised around a top-lit concourse while upper floors provide workspaces for academics and postgraduate researchers. Led by Penoyre and Prasad, and designed to achieve a BREEAM ‘excellent’ rating, the project is due for completion in 2016.
HIGH-SPEED DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHAMPTON
A new modular school centred initial teacher training (SCITT) facility at Southampton’s Wildern School has been built in just four weeks. The school is an academy, catering for pupils from Year 7 to Year 11, and part of the Wildern Partnership and the ETC alliance, a national teaching school dedicated to supporting trainees and teachers. Designed by Avenues Architects and delivered by Roan, the standalone training facility opened its doors last autumn. The new 178 sqm single-storey, six-bay facility was completed in a traditional brick envelope with rendered inserts and cedar cladding.
Building work on a major new primary school for London has been launched by housebuilder St Edward and the mayor of Kensington and Chelsea during a ground- breaking ceremony last month. Mayor Maighread Condon-Simmonds and cllr Joanna Gardner dug the first ground, celebrating the start of the construction project which will create a four-storey school for more than 200 pupils. Warwick Road primary school, which is being developed by St Edward as part of a major regeneration project in Kensington, is due to complete in just under two years. The school will provide space for new
classrooms, a wildlife garden on the second floor and will have a large roof-top play area and garden with seating, all safely enclosed by a high wall that also provides areas of cover from rain or sun. The school has been designed by Squire and Partners to provide teachers and pupils with the space and facilities they need. The school will also come with a separate garden area, designed to allow for quiet play time, encouraging outdoor
ABOVE: the Mayor breaking ground for the new Warwick Road primary school
reading and the growing of plants. Plans also include a multi-use games area, built at basement level, to accommodate a wide range of sports activities such as football and netball, and this will be available to the wider community after school hours.
Arts facilities boost for Plymouth
Plymouth University has unveiled its award-winning performance space, The House. The £7 million centre – recipient of Plymouth’s Abercrombie Award 2014 for demonstrating design excellence and innovation – was designed by Burwell Deakins Architects and built by Midas Construction to BREEAM ‘excellent’ standards. The House features a 200-capacity,
sprung-floor theatre, studio spaces and advanced technology. It will provide a new touring performance venue for Plymouth, atracting artists of national and international standing to the Peninsula Arts performance programme. It also incorporates a high-tension wire grid – one of very few in the UK – enabling wheelchair access for students with disabilities to develop expertise in technical theatre. Also housed in the building is the
university’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR), which asks such questions as ‘Can music be the tool that unlocks the most devastating of neurological conditions?’ Led by Professor Eduardo Miranda, the research cluster includes academics and
ABOVE: Prof David Coslett and architect Nicholas Burwell outside The House
PhD students working to identify a range of techniques which analyse the brain’s response to music and movement. Professor David Coslet, interim chief
executive of Plymouth University, said: “This exciting new performance venue, featuring first-class teaching and research spaces, takes our commitment to the performing arts to a whole new level. In recent years, we have consistently invested in our campus to provide students, staff, our partners and the community with access to some of the most advanced facilities in the UK. The House shows we are continuing to do this.”
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