My first visit to the LSE's Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, a couple of weeks after it opened, produced two overriding impressions: firstly, a kind of wonder that such a vividly angular form could arise in such a scrunched fag-end of cityscape; secondly, that the bold geometries of the internal volumes had been instantly taken over by students. This was not look-at-me object architecture; it was an original response to a triangular site parcel that produced a building that worked. A short film made after the opening, Vox Pop, spliced together students' remarks about the building and two comments sum up the range of their responses. 'The architecture is strange, but in a unique way,' said one. 'It's very artful,' mused another. Their responses were universally enthusiastic.
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