Design Engine has lodged plans for a 980sq m design technology and engineering building for Stowe School in Buckinghamshire.

The education specialist said the two-storey structure would be a “creative hub” to introduce pupils to modern design and manufacturing skills, and that it would sit alongside the independent school’s science and maths offer.

Headteacher Anthony Wallersteiner said the school – which counts Richard Branson, Michael Grade and architect Francis Terry among its past pupils – saluted the “unashamedly modernist” proposals.

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