Showing Off

A resource rich, flexible school that sits well in its environment and delivers on its brief. A school that doesn’t show off but just does its job well. Difficult to photograph for the glossy design journal.

It is easy to be distracted by architectural peacock displays when first visiting a school. What you remember are the memorable features. Unless you talk to people. Unless you watch what is happening and listen to how people feel about the space. Then you remember differently – about stories rather than things.

There is absoutely nothing wrong with memorable architecture or about a building showing off – when there is something to be proud of. But what we should be showing off is what happens everyday inside our buildings not how well they photograph in the sunlight.