St Thomas the Apostle College

This Catholic secondary School for boys in Nunhead, South London was redeveloped as part of Southwark's Building for Schools for the Future programme. The design retains the existing Chapel, Hall building and swimming pool and provides flexible new departmental buildings, laid out to create and enclose a central cloister space wrapped by external circulation at the heart of the school. Essentially a quiet reflective space focused on the Chapel, the cloister is complemented by a new entrance and new facilities for active play, sports, creativity and performance, all of which will also be made available to the community out-of-hours.