Mossbourne Community Academy Sadolin woodstain products have been used extensively on an award winning school designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership. Mossbourne Community Academy is located on a brownfield site previously occupied by Hackney Downs School. When the old school was demolished, the local education authority and Hackney Borough Council sought a new structure that would provide a single aspect solution to the educational requirements of the community whilst at the same time, visually complementing the site’s hostile boundary conditions. The Design The architect’s design is a timber framed three storey highbuilding, functionally divided into houses. The building comprises two structures, a blockwork diaphragm wall and a glulam softwood timber frame tied together and supported

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