What are the main elements that come to mind when we think of a school? A playground? Corridors? Defensiveness? What then might we think of a school that has successfully managed to eliminate, or at least significantly reconfigure, all three? This is exactly what Cottrell and Vermeulen’s revolutionary new school in Peckham, south London has managed to achieve.

贝伦登小学是去年年底新开设的小学和幼儿园。这所学校过去40年一直在附近的一个地方，现在搬进了新楼。这栋建筑深藏在Peckham住宅区的后街深处，周围环绕着大量精致的、绿树成荫的维多利亚式住宅露台，为人们提供了经典伦敦家庭生活的迷人一瞥。

Bellenden is also the latest in a long line of schools that Cottrell and Vermuelen has completed for the London Borough of Southwark. These are part of an ambitious school building programme across the borough that, as well as Cottrell and Vermuelen, has attracted a stellar list of prominent architects including Maccreanor Lavington, Hawkins Brown and Haverstock. In so doing Southwark now boasts an astonishing collection of contemporary educational buildings and has effectively turned itself into one of the foremost patrons of public schools architecture in the country.

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