Penoyre & Prasad’s angular addition to Birkbeck campus completes

A new new teaching and learning centre for Birkbeck, University of London designed by Penoyre & Prasad has completed in Bloomsbury.

该项目是对位于尤斯顿路的一栋20世纪20年代的现有建筑的翻新和屋顶扩建，靠近主要的马莱街校园。

It contains a 180-seat lecture theatre, classrooms and informal co-learning spaces.

Its most striking element is an angular copper-coloured roof extension that cantilevers over the street.

At night the building is lit up to showcase the activity within and highlight the significance of Birkbeck as the UK’s only evening university.

Penoyre & Prasad的负责人马克•罗(Mark Rowe)表示，该方案的关键部分是加强20世纪20年代原有的风格。Penoyre & Prasad目前已成为珀金斯威尔(Perkins & Will)的一部分。这一点尤其重要，因为建筑坐落在敏感的遗产环境中，与John Soane爵士的i级圣三一教堂对角，并靠近尤斯顿路的重要地标建筑。

Rowe said: “Our aim for this project was to breathe new life into the existing building and give Birkbeck a dynamic presence in a prominent location.

“The timber-formed, copper-clad, twisted lecture theatre protrudes from above the building, creating a striking moment that can be recognised from afar, while providing the much-needed teaching spaces. Views into the basement through ample glazed shop windows capture the curiosity of passers-by, creating an engaging space for the public and building users.”

这座七层的建筑包括一个向公众开放的咖啡馆，以及一层和一层的学生学习中心。

Teaching and learning spaces fill the upper floors, with the 180-person lecture theatre and a 25-person classroom occupying the rooftop extension.