Pimlico School

Pimlico Academy is a secondary school in the Pimlico area of Westminster, London. The school is a specialist Arts College. The previous school building was designed by John Bancroft of the Greater London Council's architecture department and was built in 1967-70. It was a noted example of brutalist architecture, constructed of concrete and glass without decorative claddings or ornament, and its appearance had been controversial since it opened. A contemporary critic likened it to a battleship, describing it as a "100-odd metre long, turreted, metallic grey thing lying in its own sunken rectangle". Over time, deterioration of the building's fabric and drawbacks of its glass construction led to complaints that the building was often...