PROJECT
Ben Pimlott Building

CLIENT
Goldsmiths College

ARCHITECT
Alsop Architects:

CONTRACT VALUE

£6.4million

 

Goldsmiths College, shown in the attached commercial photography and architectural photography, has an international reputation as an incubator of British Art at a time when the UK leads contemporary art throughout the world. The college had undergone rapid expansion over the previous two decades and was in need of studio and teaching accommodation in order to retain its status.

 

SMC Alsop was appointed after an open International competition in January 2002 to develop an overall vision for a New Arts Complex that would deliver much needed additional accommodation in a number of phases as illustrated in the commercial photography and architectural photography. The first phase delivers 3,600sqm of teaching and studio facilities for the Visual Arts Department as well as digital media laboratories and a major new research unit, called the Centre for Cognition, Culture and Computation.

 

The movement of people across the site was one of the key drivers behind our overall vision for the new Arts Complex. A new public space was created by clearing and opening up the site at street level which invites the public to engage with the new activities and programme of the Arts Complex shown in the attached architectural photography.

 

The Phase One building, completed in January 2005, has been designed as a robust seven storey box with an industrial aesthetic to reflect the rough and tough studio space within. Three sides of the box are clad in metal with punched windows for daylight and ventilation where required.