Angles with poise

摘要

This is such a pleasure, and a bit of a guilty one at that. If Soho's Photographer's Gallery was its understated, low-budget introduction to London in 2012, then O'Donnell + Tuomey's new Student Centre at the London School of Economics is the exact opposite: a €24m statement of what might be called Total Architecture. Here we have a building that celebrates complexity and recalls something of the awkward-squad character of their former boss Jim Stirling in his 'Red Buildings' phase -though with far greater response to context and - one hopes - lower maintenance.