Jury citation:
The new Student Centre brought together facilities from across the LSE Central London campus onto a singularly constricted site – the architect’s response was a tour de force in understanding the site and the complex programme, extending over a dense eight floors, connected by expressive circulation spaces which skewer the whole together.

These spaces are enclosed within a unique folded and canted brick form, responding to - but overcoming - rights to light restrictions and, embedded within the city fabric, catching shafts of sunlight on its surface.

Saw Swee Hock, developed from a competition winning design still enthusiastically remembered by the client, demonstrates the ambition and skill of the architects in one of the first high profile international commissions for Irish architects. As an urban intervention through the quality of its architecture it brings both life to the surrounding streets and accommodates a phenomenal density of student activity.  

 

Congratulations to Donaghy Dimond on their well-deserved win. 

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