UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH HENEGHAN PENG

摘要

Design a school of architecture? A bit of a busman's holiday, you might say, but any architect would relish a professional opportunity to revisit their youth; only a treehouse commission could trump it. As you meander up Church Street from the Docklands Light Railway station, Heneghan Peng's Utopian incubator for the next generation of fledgling architects punctuates the rolling vista in af lurry of stone and glass. In the rarest of London's sunshine, its pale limestone rind seems to risefrom Stockwell Street like a chunk of mild, yellow cheddar. And why not? Students love cheese. This is what Heneghan Peng do best; their process brings the craft of an artisan to the prodigious scale of public buildings. Impressively, historic Greenwich represents yet another World Heritage Site for the practice, and one that they have commandeered in a manner befitting its maritime pedigree.