New £4m arts hub unveiled for Plymouth city centre
A STRIKING new art college building is to go up at Drake Circus over the next year.
Plymouth College of Art has revealed this impression of its new £4million workshops.
A turf-cutting ceremony to mark the start of work took place on Monday, as reported in the Herald earlier this week.
The building is the first phase in the college's masterplan, and will open for students next September.
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The workshops will give students access to the latest technologies in glass, ceramics and metals. These range from furnaces, kilns and cold-processing to digital tools and high-tech machining processes.
The building will provide an additional 2,034 square metres of specialist workshop space.
There will be a new design workshop with a range of computer-aided digital design facilities for rapid prototyping, including 3D scanning and printing, milling and laser cutting. The workshop will also accommodate workstations, social learning hubs and display areas.
Professor Andrew Brewerton, the principal, said: "Plymouth College of Art is working purposefully against the grain of decline and closure in this critical area of art and design education, with a capital innovation that will shape the professional practice and career horizons of the next generation of talented designers and makers."
A college spokesperson added: "We are attracting increasing recognition for innovation in arts education, and as a national and international centre for the contemporary crafts.
"The biennial symposium Making Futures, convening its third edition in September 2013, is by now an eagerly anticipated event in the international contemporary crafts calendar.
"From this year the college will also curate the international glass pavilion at Art Shanghai on an annual basis."
Comments
by circles1
Saturday, October 13 2012, 8:39AM
“@ hermes, I was right then”
by blackpot
Saturday, October 13 2012, 7:14AM
“Hermes..never read such a load of pretentious twaddle in my life.”
by HermesThelema
Saturday, October 13 2012, 6:37AM
“Although it is often said we must all suffer for our art; in wisdom all appreciate that a cult may say one interpretation to one set and another interpretation to another in order to raise division and cause veil. At a time in the cult and occult season where a cartoon may either read "kind of chilly here isn't it when you don't know who your friends are" or "as winter approaches we must remember to check on our elderly neighbours and look forward in utmost to the season of good cheer", the wheel of fortune may point reason – we wish our students a long life and promising cared career.
AR”
by circles1
Friday, October 12 2012, 9:06AM
“what Plymouth desperately needs is an architectural college, these insipid boxes are uninspiring and do nothing for the city, the inside will be like the Lewensky building, an unfinished breeze block shed”
by PL1Plym
Friday, October 12 2012, 5:35AM
“It's a good job the Uni and Art College are still investing in Plymouth. Bring it on!”
by blogtodi
Friday, October 12 2012, 2:30AM
“All interesting stuff, but remember, this is Plymouth; the city you all like to denigrate. And I'm being negative? Mmm...”
by Dunthiel
Thursday, October 11 2012, 10:11PM
“"If you have a limited budget then you spend your money on facility, not aesthetics."
"And remember, the building is functional, it's there to do the job of housing the art college workshops"
A successful piece of architecture offers you form and function combined, so there is no need to chose. A building such as this is never just functional, it has to convey the aspirational image of the college, especially when it comes to art and design institutions.”
by Waltersmith
Thursday, October 11 2012, 10:02PM
“@blogtodi
What a negative attitude.”
by Nevman
Thursday, October 11 2012, 9:53PM
“Why do you think an attractive building should cost any more than an ugly one? Surely art students, more so than any others, would benefit from inspirational surroundings. Just because you don't look around you any more, blogtodi, please don't assume that we've all had the appreciation of beauty driven out of us by Plymouth's lacklustre architecture.”
by blogtodi
Thursday, October 11 2012, 8:42PM
“Why should we want good architecture? Nobody's coming here except the students and why would we want to impress them?
It doesn't matter what buildings are erected in the city centre, no-one cares. Unless it's to sit in a traffic jam and admire the scenery.
If you have a limited budget then you spend your money on facility, not aesthetics.
It's no good the students coming down here and saying, 'The courses were ****, the facilities poor but gosh, how nice the buildings looked!'
And remember, the building is functional, it's there to do the job of housing the art college workshops. And who says it looks out of place? It's in good company.”