Bridge Academy | Hackney | London | BDP

The academy forms a seven level interactive learning environment in a dense inner city multi ethnic site alongside the Regent's Canal.

Galleried learning space is set around a social gathering area and learning hub. A sweeping structural arch supports the centre of the school, allowing the learning space to be column free and totally flexible.

Teaching terraces extend the internal learning space as outdoor classrooms overlooking the canalside environment.

The form of the building has been designed to minimise energy use by maximising daylight to the teaching spaces and it is predominantly naturally ventilated.......more

The Vache Noire shopping centre | Arcueil | Paris | BDP

A landmark retail building with a green heart.

The Vache Noire shopping centre is on a sloped site and therefore largely underground, to allow for the creation of a public garden on the roof of the building.

The large gently sloped garden, covering the shopping centre, rises towards the south and is easily accessible from the surrounding streets, and the public areas of the town of Arcueil. It offers the community a green haven right in the middle of the town centre.

Vache Noire is made up of two main levels of shops together with two other partial levels with a food and leisure offer, all located above three levels of the underground car park. The northern part of the project is bordered by a housing development of eight terraced levels overlooking the public garden to the south........more