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Site area: 1.4 hectare

Building area 10,745 square meters

Completed: 2010

Clients: ARK Education & DCSF

Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects
Design: Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher

Project Director: Lars Teichmann

Project Architect: Matthew Hardcastle

Project Team: Lars Teichmann,Matthew Hardcastle,Bidisha Sinha, ,Henning Hansen,Lisamarie Villegas Ambia,Judith Wahle,Enrico Kleinke ,Christine Chow,Guy Taylor,Patrick Bedarf,Sang Hilliges,Hoda Nobakhti

Project Manager: Capita Symonds

Engineers: Arup

Landscape: Gross Max

Main Contractor: (Design & Build) Mace Plus

Photographed by Luke Hayes


Photo: Luke Hayes

Photo: Luke Hayes

Evelyn Grace Academy is Zaha Hadid Architects' first completed project in England. Evelyn Grace Academy is a non-selective, co-educational secondary school within the English Academy programme, in Brixton, London.

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Designed for about 1,200 pupils, the Evelyn Grace Academy maintains the educational principle of smaller "school within school" concept, wherein the middle school is housing 270 pupils and the upper school consists of 330 pupils per school. Each of these smaller school is contained within highly functional spaces that give a distinct identity both internally and externally.

The Academy opened in September 2008 in temporary accommodation to a brand new Year 7 intake and, on Monday 13 September 2010, opened in its new building to Year 9 students. The building has been designed by architect Zaha Hadid

The school is funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families but is owned and operated by ARK Academies, a registered charity under English law, and sponsored by parent charity Absolute Return for Kids (ARK), founded by hedge fund financier Arpad Busson. - wiki

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