The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has revealed designs from the six architects shortlisted for its next major building project: 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields/The Paul Marshall Building. The teams shortlisted in the School’s third RIBA design competition (in alphabetical order) are:
AL_A, London David Chipperfield Architects, London Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Penoyre & Prasad, New York & London Grafton Architects, Dublin, Ireland Herzog & de Meuron Architects, Basel, Switzerland & London Niall McLaughlin Architects + Scott Brownrigg, London
Involving the demolition and redevelopment of 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the LSE brief calls for world-class architecture so that its estate can be commensurate with its global academic reputation. As part of the design process LSE held a mid-competition design workshop with each of the teams to ensure they understood the brief clearly.
As part of the consultation and decision making process, a public exhibition of the six design concepts is being held in LSE’s multi award winning Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, Sheffield Street WC2A 2AP between 2-17 March 2016. All visitors, whether associated with LSE or not, will be able to vote for their favourite design although the identity of each architect is deliberately being kept anonymous.
Julian Robinson, LSE’s Director of Estates said: “The amount of analysis and intellectual effort that has gone into the designs from each team is staggering and the results are impressive and very exciting. Given its size and prime location on Lincoln’s Inn Fields we want this to be a seminal university building; its legacy will endure for many generations so it is vital that we make the right decision.”
In April 2016, the six teams will make a presentation to a jury panel chaired by Professor Craig Calhoun, Director and President of LSE, with an announcement on the winning team due from the School later in the Spring of 2016. Source and images Courtesy of RIBA Competition.
44 Lincolns Inn Fields was sold by Gryphon Property Partners on behalf of their client CRUK for
an undisclosed amount.
"It's exciting it is to see such high quality of designs for this important central
London site; everyone at Gryphon is delighted that LSE have this site which might so easily have been
snatched up by one of the many house builders that were bidding at the time". - Gryphon Property Partners
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