LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION

The new London College of Fashion brings together an institution that up until recently operated in six disparate sites. Catering for courses from journalism to jewellery, fashion illustration to footwear, menswear to marketing, it is a 21st-century atelier. Comprising 40,000 sqm for thousands of students and staff over seventeen storeys, it is one of the world’s largest centres for fashion. With its new home, the college has broadened the scope of what it teaches, and can stay ahead of ever-changing ways of learning and teaching practice. There is a richness of flexible spaces for general learning alongside specialist places for creativity, for practice-based making. From a robust approach to materiality to a dramatic series of interior spaces, it provides a fitting backdrop to the colour of fashion and the charisma of its future creators. Here, architecture tailors the college with an identity for generations to come.