LSE New Academic Building Tour
06 August 200918:30
Tour presented by Andrew Milward-Bason of Grimshaw
The LSE’s New Academic Building is an extensive remodelling of an existing Edwardian building, which formerly housed the Public Trustees Office. Situated at the northernmost point of the university’s central London campus, the building has now been reconfigured as a university building with academic, social, and departmental space across ten floors totaling 12,700sqm.
The forecourt provides an opportunity for the New Academic Building to engage with the public and the resulting concept is an urban landscape response as much as it is an architectural one. The north section of the forecourt forms a bank of tiered seating that physically expresses the raked lecture theatre directly below, while the southern half functions as a café terrace accessible from the street. The forecourt is framed with glass light wells, defining an active space where the public and LSE can intermingle. A number of subtle interventions open up the facade to articulate the presence of a contemporary remodelling within. An internal street links the entrances on either side of the building, allowing views right across the ground floor from Kingsway to Lincoln’s Inn fields beyond. The compressed spaces of the adjacent reception areas open onto the nucleus of the building, a light-filled, triple-height central atrium.
Free Admission
Tour size is limited to 10, first come first serve
RSVP required ylau@kpf.com
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29 July 2009
: posted by Josye @ 11:09 
