Northampton International Academy in Northamptonshire
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Northampton International Academy in Northamptonshire
School Building Northamptonshire, England, UK – design by Architecture Initiative
28 May 2019
Northampton International Academy
Design: Architecture Initiative
Location: 55 Barrack Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1AA, UK
A derelict former Royal Mail Sorting Office in Northampton has been renovated and reopened as an innovative 2220-place academy school for Northamptonshire County Council and East Midlands Academy Trust – Northampton International Academy.
London-based architecture practice Architecture Initiative has completed a project to turn the largely windowless, utilitarian, industrial building into an education hub filled with natural light and expansive views; designed to motivate and inspire. The 1970s building stood derelict for eleven years and had become a local eyesore, attracting antisocial behaviour.
Architecture Initiative identified the opportunity to ambitiously reimagine the vast brutalist structure as a school, while celebrating the best of its exposed concrete structure and features such as its massive open spaces and waffle slab ceilings. Northampton International Academy accommodates 420 primary pupils 1500 secondary pupils and a 300-place sixth form.
The main mass of the building structure remains largely unchanged. A screen of perforated, polished metal wraps around the buildin...
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