Failing in spirit

摘要

King's Cross Academy and Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children, by David Morley Architects, was definitely a building to go home and think about. The combined academy and special needs school has de facto separate entrances and classrooms but other shared facilities; it constitutes a plinth at the base of a 46.8m-tall residential tower sponsored by the area's developer Argent 'for want of a decent alternative', and sits on a crammed urban site which is still too noisy from surrounding construction to any of us hear one each other. There was a lot going on.