Sint Lucas Art Academy, Netherlands by Fat

The precast concrete pop-gothic screen signals the new entrance off the piazza.

Source: Photographs by Frans Barten

Kester Rattenbury enjoys Fat’s reworking of a Dutch art school, but wonders whether the practice’s quirkiness is a cover for something more serious.

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