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Drawing Studio at Arts University Bournemouth Sir Peter Cook + CRAB Studio

This commission came through a recognition that the fundamental nature of drawing and the way in which it stimulates thought needed to be recognised and celebrated in a building available to all sections of the Arts University Bournemouth. Moreover designed by a prominent alumnus (when it was Bournemouth College of Art) : Sir Peter Cook : much of whose architectural work revolves around drawing. 

The building is an iconic and free-standing pavilion that contains a large room, supported by a small internal service and storage territory. The condition of the room celebrates four aspects of light – a central theme in the tradition of looking and drawing. These are featured as follows: 

The large north-light : in the ‘Studio’ tradition.

The rear clerestory that throws a softer light back from the rear wall.

A discrete – even softer - light that filters under the bench on the east side.

A graded wash of light that comes in along the curve of the entrance porte-clochere via the glass entrance door. 

Dame Zaha Hadid, Mike Davies and Sir Peter Cook at the opening

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BIBLIOTECA CONARTE by Anagrama

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This one makes the water flow uphill.

Markus Scherer - Franzensfeste fortress [Italy, 2015] 

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