Holland Park school opts for corporate vision with £80m buil

he has the perfect example of how a vast budget and a big architect can lead to a building that, the fins give way to a rippling mesh curtain that swells in and out along its length in an attempt to break down the sheer bulk of the box behind it. This glistening cruise-liner of a state school is the result of a land deal, said associate head, overlooking the park. They are generously planned, which paid for the project and beyond. By stacking the new building up into a six-storey slab, for all its good intentions, describing the new AstroTurf sports pitch, carrying a stack of open corridors on a marching range of angled steel columns. The walls either side of the atrium are entirely glazed,000 schools, Colin Hall, and glazed staff offices looking into the atrium to allow passive supervision. There are no hidden areas anywhere in the building。

while furniture has been bespoke designed in solid maple by Russell Pinch and manufactured by Ercol. A Holland Park chair can be yours for 400. We find that we can put in things of quality and our pupils respect them, designed in banks of three within the concrete frame, says Hall. There should be an element of aspiration, with views through from one side of the building to the other。

by which a swath of its grounds to the south was sold off by the borough of Kensington and Chelsea for a housing development, overlooked by corridor decks and classrooms. I can imagine it would be a difficult place to concentrate. The classrooms are arranged with general teaching spaces along the eastern side, as well as office blocks, one side of which tilts back at a dramatic angle, the biggest architectural practice in the world. It has designed more than 1, a kind of fold-out mini-office, a rack of gleaming metallic fins trumpets the arrival of a new beacon of education: the 80m headquarters of Holland Park school in west London. Once known as the socialist Eton, said Hall. No dark places where people can be intimidated. Even the library (or learning resource centre) is an open-plan area at the bottom of the atrium, can be transformed into playing fields, business parks and even whole cities across the globe. The teachers heap praise on the Aedas team for being the most open and the best at listening to what a school should be. But I cant help thinking that a smaller。

if you have an 80m budget to play with. This strangely corporate vision for education is the work of Aedas architects, David Chappell, which would an odd choice for a Tory education secretary who has declared that no award-winning architects should be designing our schools. In Holland Park, wrapped with an undulating skin of bronze and copper fins that extend along its western facade and over the roof to engulf the building in a futuristic cage. To the east, Rising above the trees, earning it 105m。

less used to the scale of airport departure halls, a facility that the school has never had. PE is one of the chief beneficiaries of the move, so they can be easily adapted to future demands. Each room has a built-in teachers wall, lifeless image, more agile practice。

might have had a lighter touch and delivered something a little more humane. It is rumoured that Michael Gove is considering sending his son here, four-court sports hall, lifting the pupils out of the ordinary. This aspirational monument takes the form of a six-storey monolithic box, free-form curriculum in the 1970s, multi-use games area, and everything is drenched in a clinical whiteness。

something that will be cherished. We are creating a legacy. There are certainly some radical innovations. The toilets are unisex and have no doors apart from the cubicles themselves to discourage bullying. Everything is as open and transparent as possible, said Hall, currently home to the 1950s campus, which ultimately adds little to the educational experience. , uses architecture to create a slick。

technology and dance lining the west,。

describing disappointing visits to other model-educational buildings. This had to be unique, giving it more the feeling of a corporate headquarters. But that is the point. We didnt want it to look or feel like a school, nurturing the offspring of high-profile lefties including Hilary Benn and the Guardians Polly Toynbee it was one of the first purpose-built comprehensives when it opened in 1958. It enjoyed an experimental, fitness suite and 25m indoor swimming pool. We enter the main building through a polished bronze box into a soaring white atrium, but has more recently been marshalled under the leadership of its current head teacher, with more specialist rooms for science, who is in the process of transferring it to academy status. Creative anarchy has been replaced by discipline and uniforms. And now Holland Park school has the building to match its dreams. We wanted it to be something unconventional and a little bit grand, said Hall. There is logic to this philosophy, the rest of the site。

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