City and Islington College :

Centre for Business, Arts & Technology

In collaboration with Wilkinson Eyre, this project includes the upgrade of an existing 1960s building along with the creation of a new four-storey extension.The upgrading represents an innovative exemplar in the regeneration of this building type, which is common to the education sector. A dramatic new glass skin, open at the top and bottom, sits a metre in front of the existing 80m facade on the Camden Road frontage.

he skin is composed of accentuated horizontal bands and striated with four different degrees of translucency, allowing for digital messaging to be projected along its length