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Allies and Morrison

London College of Fashion . London

Allies and Morrison . photos: © Simon Menges . + dezeen

This new home for UAL’s London College of Fashion is conceived as a 21st century workshop; its design inspired by 19th century mill buildings common to many industrial cities. It is outwardly simple, unpretentious and robust while capable of containing multiple complex and process-driven internal arrangements that are continually adaptable to change. Bringing together an institution that up until recently was operating in six sites across London, this move represents the first time that all of its departments co-locate together under one roof. Now occupied by 5,000 students and faculty, the building is one of the largest dedicated to the study and research of fashion in the world and forms a key piece of the cultural quarter of East Bank. Continue reading Allies and Morrison

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Allies and Morrison

Grosvenor East Metropolitan University . Manchester

Allies and Morrison . photos: © Jack Hobhouse . + archdaily

The 12,100 sqm new building for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University brings together a dynamic mix of the performing arts, journalism, and languages alongside the newly established Manchester Poetry Library, a cafe, and public foyers, exhibition space, and a 180-seat studio theatre. Situated on Manchester’s Oxford Road corridor, Grosvenor East provides the university with spaces for teaching and learning, and a highly visible new cultural hub connected to the city. Continue reading Allies and Morrison

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King’s College . Cambridge

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Allies and Morrison . photos: © Nick Guttridge . + AJ

This project, won through a design competition, responds to King’s College’s pressing need for new accommodation by intensifying the current use of their Cranmer Road site to create a focused graduate campus, delivering 59 additional graduate rooms within two new architecturally distinct buildings: a linear garden building and a villa building that takes its place among the arts and crafts villas of the residential road. Designed to be familiar, quietly assured buildings of the everyday, they are nevertheless outstanding in their Passivhaus environmental performance. Continue reading Allies and Morrison