Waltham Forest College Heart | Platform 5 Architects
Phase 1 London / United Kingdom / 2013
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Platform 5 Architects have completed a major refurbishment at Waltham Forest College in north-east London in collaboration with Richard Hopkinson Architects. The £3 million project opens up the existing landmark 1930s building to create a new series of formal and informal education and meeting areas, which work as set of interacting horizontal and vertical layered spaces. The intervention of a suspended glazed seminar box within the central learning space, accessed by a slender oak-lined staircase, is the project’s most striking feature. Our team have transformed the previously austere and run-down main spaces in the college to create a welcoming, inclusive and contemporary environment for students, staff and other building users.
This project marks the first phase in the delivery of a strategic masterplan. The success of the project has led to a further commission to carry out the second stage of the masterplan with a £4.9M project.
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Platform 5 Architects have completed a major refurbishment at Waltham Forest College in north-east London in collaboration with Richard Hopkinson Architects. The £3 million project opens up the existing landmark 1930s building to create a new series of formal and informal education and meeting areas, which work as set of interacting horizontal and vertical layered spaces. The intervention of a suspended glazed seminar box within the central learning space, accessed by a slender oak-lined...
- Year 2013
- Work finished in 2013
- Cost £3,000,000
- Status Current works
- Type Colleges & Universities / Restoration of façades / Building Recovery and Renewal
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