Whitechapel Gallery commissions Matt + Fiona to build new school art room
(Artdaily.org)

Room for Art is a new commission by architectural educationalists Matt + Fiona for the Whitechapel Gallery with year 6 pupils at Lansbury Lawrence Primary School, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The 1951 Festival of Britain featured major projects on the South Bank of the Thames including the futuristic prefab Dome of Discovery and the iconic Skylon tower. It also presented the Live Architecture exhibition that reimagined the urban renewal of East London with the creation of the Lansbury Estate. Over 65 years later, capturing this utopian optimism, the duo MATT+FIONA have worked with the modernist Lansbury Lawrence Primary School on the design of its new art room building. This visionary post-war architecture provides the context and inspiration for the pupils’ design. The lattice timber skeleton with vibrant cladding