Winning design picked for LSE's Bankside House development

The new student accommodation - with up to 2,000 beds - will replace the 1950s Bankside House. The LSE turned Bankside House - originally built as offices linked to the adjacent power station - into a student residence in the 1990s.Whilst the existing building has 595 beds, the LSE is looking to more than treble the capacity of the site, with a design based on the idea of three ‘houses’ each of around 650 students.This week a joint submission by architects Carmody Groarke and Sheppar