UCL East, One Pool Street

The building’s flexible lower levels can be configured to suit a wide range of activities and public events including performances, exhibitions, workshops and lectures; and it features cafés and bars that cater to the public as well as UCL students and staff. The three-storey concrete-framed podium is wrapped in a sinuous masonry cladding. It has main entrances on the north, from what will become the campus’s principal avenue, and on the south from a more informal route via the main outdoor making-space. The two student residential towers are slender slab blocks, clad in curved concrete panels with wide overhangs to shade the south and west elevations from the sun. Each cluster of rooms has a shared common room at the ends of the block, with stunning three-way views across the park.