Report: Student Centre of the London School of Economics in London
The Saw Swee Hock Student Centre was intended to resemble “a habitable warehouse,” says Sheila O’Donnell – “robust and open, yet meticulously thought out down to the last detail.” The Dublin-based architecture firm O’Donnell + Tuomey has succeeded in this. And the wealth of detail in the €26 million project on London’s Sheffield Street is most spectacularly revealed from the outside: Built on a triangular plot at the southeast corner of Lincolns Inn Fields in Holborn, the eight-storey building is a prime example of sensitive, site-specific design.
