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Quadrangle Building, King’s College London
Architect:
Hall McKnight
Award Type:
Irish Architecture Awards
Location:
London, UK
On a live university campus, the architects for the Quadrangle Building had to deal with the demanding conditions of physical and historical architectural weight. They resolved the combined design conundrums – of 4,000 square metres of reclaimed space, the technical requirements and the inevitable structural challenges – with impressive outcomes externally and internally. The whole project was being constructed entirely through a 3.6-metre wide archway onto London’s Embankment. Architectural sensibility, skill and judgement have yielded spaces of memorable character through manipulation of section, light, and materials resulting in an atmospheric consciousness within a world above, below and beyond. A suitable spatial state for enquiring minds into the future.