Goldsmiths College has an international reputation as the incubator of British art at a time when the UK leads contemporary art throughout the world. We also excel in the teaching of the humanities, social sciences, design and education and received excellent scores in the most recent assessment of the research quality in higher education institutions (Research Assessment Exercise).

The College has undergone rapid expansion over the last two decades and was in need of studio and teaching accommodation in order to retain this status.

Alsop & Partners (then Alsop Architects) were appointed after an open international competition in January 2002 to develop an overall vision for the much needed additional accommodation. Covering 2,700 sqm the new building brings together the Visual Arts, Computing and Psychology Departments.

Interdisciplinarity between departments is a particular area of focus for the future so as well as teaching and studio facilities, the new building also incorporates purpose designed labs for a cutting edge new research unit called the Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture. Centre brings together expertise from the social sciences, computing, art and design. Another new addition to the College enabled by the new building, is Goldsmiths Digital Studios.