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Academy in London, England

Ark Evelyn Grace Academy is a non-selective, coeducational secondary school in Brixton, in the London borough of Lambeth.

The Academy is a member of Ark, a multi-academy trust with schools across England.

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The Academy opened in September 2008 in temporary accommodation admitting its first 180 pupils in year 7. In September 2010 the academy moved to a new purpose-built school building as it admitted its third year 7 year group.

The building, designed by architect Zaha Hadid,^[2] was awarded the 2011 Stirling Prize.^[3]

Building

The school, which won the Stirling Prize in 2011, was designed by renowned architect Zaha Hadid, who described her post-modernist style as parametricism.

The main building, which is a sweeping Z shape, has three floors of classroom placed on top of solid concrete podium. The building accommodates two "houses", which they call schools, separated by a range of shared facilit