PTEa has taken an innovative approach, acting as architect and development partner, building flats on top of a new school, to solve a whole set of connected educational, housing and regeneration challenges.

PTEa designed this school for a site in Islington for the London Diocesan Board for Schools. The existing school occupied two cramped sites with inadequate facilities. In a unique approach, the architects suggested merging the junior school site with land belonging to their own development company and building a new single storey primary school with affordable flats above.

The design, completed in 2005, offers a variety of teaching spaces and a large hall, which can be separated for community use out-of-hours.

Award:
The Regeneration Awards 2005: Innovation of the year

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