Ted Cullinan's UEL campus gets new reception
Surface Architects designed £1 million entrance
Surface Architects has completed a £1 million reception building for the University of East London.
The new structure protrudes from Ted Cullinan’s original Docklands Campus and is described by the architect as a “symbolic door” for the university.
A statement from the practice added: “The rough black and smooth white palette of components is countered by the insertion of sloping blue metallic portals to the front and rear.”
Surface worked with structural engineer Fluid Structure on the project.
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circular windows. oh dear
For £1 million there's surely more to it than this? - what exactly was wrong with the Cullinan design, if anything? - not enough bling?
The fact that Cullinan's desolate UEL campus, which is totally cut off and remote from anything resembling an urban context, should even NEED a "reception building" and a “symbolic door” is testimony to the planning disaster that sited it so far away from everything a university needs: shops, pubs, clubs, markets, people, streets, stimulus.
i love a symbolic door as much as the next man but i can't get a handle on this.