Lambeth Academy is a new build project on a very small inner London City site surrounded by large quality houses, an industrial user and a challenging residential high rise estate. The design maximises site use having 3 storeys of teaching accommodation with a covered play area beneath the sports hall. A fibonacci curve forms the atrium and the stone main entrance walls a “pages of a book” which maximises privacy to adjacent area and provides a dramatic entrance and heart to the school. The school service a diverse local catchment including a primary school for the partially sited as well as a high number of physically disabled students. Community use was central to the education and design ethos. Direct and secure access is provided to sports, music, IT, performance halls and diner.