Walters & Cohen Architects recently completed the new sports building at Godolphin and Latymer school in West London. It provides modern and flexible sports spaces for students aged 11-18 at the independent day school for girls.
The practice was originally appointed by the school in 2010 to develop a masterplan identifying spatial requirements at the school, determining whether any of the existing building stock needed demolition, what could replace it, exact location of new facilities and how to prioritise and phase the building programme.
The school has sought to improve its facilities with a particular emphasis on the provision of high quality sports facilities within the constraints of the dense urban environment. The existing sports hall dated from 1950 and was undersized for various sports, some of which are considered important to the school and its identity, such as trampolining, badminton, basketball, indoor hockey, cricket and netball.
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