In their semester-long project at Zaha Hadid?s final studio course at the Yale School of Architecture, students Lisa Albaugh, Benjamin Bourgoin, Jamie Edindjiklian, Roberto Jenkins and Justin Oh envisioned a new a high density mixed-use project for London's Bishopsgate Goodsyard, the largest undeveloped piece of land still existing in central London.

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In their semester-long project at Zaha Hadid?s final studio course at the Yale School of Architecture, students Lisa Albaugh, Benjamin Bourgoin, Jamie Edindjiklian, Roberto Jenkins and Justin Oh envisioned a new a high density mixed-use project for London's Bishopsgate Goodsyard, the largest undeveloped piece of land still existing in central London.
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The student team utilized biomimicry and sculptural structural members reminiscent of Hadid?s signature style to create a complex consisting of a high-density tower, a mid-rise block, a train station bridging the gap between these taller structures, and a park landscape that mediates between the existing viaduct and the various access points throughout the site.

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In their language of smoothly blended towers rising sinuously from the ground, the team sought to respond to the collage-like na...