Clapham Manor Primary School

摘要

On 5 July 2010, the coalition government killed Labour's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, advocating greater autonomy for successful schools and a reduction in administrative and management fees. If they wanted a poster-boy for the Big Society's devolved power then dRMM's Clapham Manor Primary School in south-west London might just be it. An inspired headteacher was given the funds by his local authority to extend his cramped Victorian board school. An award-winning architecture practice was appointed and a ￡2.5 million extension duly delivered. To my surprise, this is a very good building. Since the completion of Sauerbruch Hutton's GSW Headquarters in Berlin in 1999 there has been a seemingly constant production of offices, hospitals, 'ideas stores' and schools that rely on coloured glass panels for their architectural expression.