Goldsmiths’ Centre
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Adaption and extension of a Grade II listed Victorian school to create a post-graduate education centre and business start-up studio space for goldsmiths
The adapted shell of a Grade II-listed Victorian school is linked to afive-storey workshop and studio building, by a glazed atrium that also serves as a public recreation area.
There’s also a gallery, which can be extended into the atrium, and a café on the ground floor that spills out on to a terrace.
The old school, houses facilities for a postgraduate design course in jewellery, silversmithing and the allied trades.
The new-build element - a nine-metre wide Yorkstone stone and brass-clad block that turns the corner of Albion Place and Britton Street - has a gallery with three floors of low-rent workshops above. It’s topped with a glass pavilion used to host important meetings and the occasional dinner.
Data
- Begun: Mar 2009
- Completed: 2011
- Floor area: 2,400m2
- Sector: Education
- Total cost: £17M
- Procurement: Standard JCT Major Project Construction Contract
- Address: The Goldsmiths’ Centre, 42 Britton Street, Clerkenwell, London, EC1M 5AD, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Lyall Bills & Young Architects
- Client: The Trustees of the Goldsmiths’ Centre
- Structural engineer: Hyner, Tillett, Steel
- M&E consultant: Michael Popper Associates
- Quantity surveyor: WT Partnership
- Interior design: Johnson Naylor
- Acoustic consultant: Sandy Brown Associates
- Project ma: Jackson Coles
- Main contractor: Balfour Beatty
