Expansion of the Bartlett School of Architecture

Bartlett is, alongside AA and RCA, among the trio of London architecture schools that attract students from all over the world seeking the best education. While the Architectural Association has been located at Bedford Square in central London since 1917 and is only considering expansion, in the case of the Royal College of Art, the architecture school moved in the early 1960s from the historic building of Somerset House to South Kensington, where Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown designed a brutalist building for them, and they now also have another building in Battersea from Haworth Tompkins.
The architectural school Bartlett perfectly fulfilled the saying about the shoemaker's children being the worst shod. This school with an excellent reputation was housed in an unattractive 1970s building. Wates House at 22 Gordon Street in the North London district of Camden Town was originally designed for 380 students, but over the past 40 years, the school has grown fivefold and fragmented into nine buildings. Behind the return to a common roof associated with an expensive £30 million reconstruction is the London office of Hawkins\Brown, which hid a complete internal reorganization behind the new brick façade, significantly expanded into the backyard, and also added a rooftop extension. Compared to the original state, the area has increased by 50 percent. The current spaces correspond much better to the quality of modern teaching and also contribute to the discussion of building in a heritage protected zone.