I went on a tour of UCL Marshgate, the vast new building constructed on the opposite side of the river from Zaha Hadid’s Olympic swimming pool:-

It is designed to be open to use by the local community, although accessibility is not the first characteristic that came to mind. Impressive, certainly. It is education on an industrial scale. 5,000 students. Cross-disciplinary. No books (books have to be ordered from Bloomsbury). The brief specified no lecture theatre as public lectures are dead, although this changed during construction. It only opened in September, so it is only running in. Beautiful in the abstract and only the first of a series of buildings for UCL at the south end of Olympic Park:-




What’s the point of it?
More students. New ways of working. Charles