Travellers along Leigham Court Road over the winter months were intrigued by the arrival of a a large number of sea containers on the Dunraven School site.
The containers have been re-used ingeniously as the giant building blocks for the school's new sports hall.
The project at Dunraven has now been nominated as one of the 24 buildings on the shortlist for the Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award. (The website misspells the name of the architects!)
There is a recent article on the school hall (with better pictures of the exterior that I'm not stealing for this blog) in Building Design Magazine. This gives a comprehensive overwiew, although with phrases like...
The blank wall of polycarbonate, the cartoonish mirrored opening and the majestic trees stake out different positions on a sliding scale from abstraction to figuration rather like the improbably co-existing parts of an early David Hockney painting.
... it might perhaps be a candidate for Pseud's Corner
You can see the time-lapse photography of the sports hall construction at BBC Education News
But it is right next to possibly the ugliest school building in London! With the brown ugly wall in front and the aircon pipes on top of the dining hall the whole thing is a complete eyesore. Granted the sports building is the most attractive building on view. At the very least the ugly wall could be made steel blue. Trust the school will now spend money on improving it's look for the neighbour's sake?
ReplyDeleteA journey on the 417 bus takes one past the ugliest school in London, Dunraven school and the most beautiful school in London, Crown Point primary school. Dunraven, with it't brown ugly front wall and rooftop pipes covering a weird mix of architecture, is a complete eyesore! On the other hand Crown point primary school is all friendly circles and oblongs and is an aesthetic joy to see every day.Also. I would love to have gone to an infant school that looked like a flying saucer!
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