Like a cork to an enormous bottle

摘要

Twenty years ago two of the most celebrated London art schools, St Martin's (as in "in-the-fields") and the Central School of Arts Crafts, entered into an arranged marriage as Central St Martins. In the October 2011 heatwave they moved, as one, from their central London sites to the terra nova of Argent's latest development, immediately north of King's Cross St Fancras, on the administrative border between Camden and Islington.CSM, as it is newly known, is now ensconced in an enormous purpose-made playground, conjured by Stanton Williams from the 1851 Lewis Cubitt Granary building along with a generous array of adjacent elements-a true range ofbuildings with a marvellous narrative.