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24.08.09
Ravensbourne
Hello there. Thought for the week returns from its summer break and look, one of our projects has been outed by Design Week when we weren’t looking. Yes, we have started work on a re-brand of Ravensbourne College, which for decades has resided in sleepy Chislehurst and is next year moving to this state-of-the-art hive of activity in Greenwich designed by Foreign Office Architects. That’s quite a change. 
We’re working with them on their brand and a new visual identity, and trying to work out what to do with the extraordinary pattern that will cloak the entire building, based on the famous tiling tessellations of maths boffin Roger Penrose. The Penrose tessellation that will cover the Ravensbourne building is based on just three shapes, but out of those shapes come the most extraordinary combinations and patterns. 
Below is a mock-up of the window detailing, and a corner piece noticed on a recent site visit. 
The new building sits right next to The Dome/02: here’s what the view from the top of the building will be like (minus the iron railing, of course). 
We’re anticipating that the Identity project will launch early in the new year. If you’re interested in more detail, there’s a good piece here in building design magazine.
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