Live, learn; with room to laze

摘要

Urbanest's latest student development is a hybrid in more ways than one. Not only does the 20-storey building incorporate teaching and accommodation provision, community workspace and a health centre, it is constructed using a sandwich of framing solutions with steel structure at the upper and lower levels and concrete in the middle. Designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris on a former office site alongside London's Waterloo station, the project will provide accommodation for 1100 higher education students as well as a private sixth form college for 700, some of whom will live on site. The 6,000m~2 college, which occupies the lower four levels, is due to complete this spring while the upper residential rooms will be ready for the autumn term.