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The World Turned Upside Down

The World Turned Upside Down. The island of Taiwan is coloured differently from mainland China

A sculpture by Mark Wallinger, The World Turned Upside Down, which features a globe resting on its north pole, was installed in Sheffield Street on the LSE campus on 26 March 2019. The artwork attracted controversy for showing the island of Taiwan as a sovereign entity rather than as part of Greater China, Lhasa being denoted as a full capital, and depicting boundaries between India and China as recognised internationally. The sculpture also did not recognise the State of Palestine as a separate country from Israel. # ISO certification in India

After protests and reactions from both sides, the school made the decision to alter the work of art over the objections of the Taiwanese students. The university decided later that year that it would retain the original design which chromatically displayed the PRC and Taiwan as different entities consistent with the status quo, but with the addition of an asterisk beside the name of Taiwan and a corresponding placard that clarified the institution’s position regarding the controversy.# ISO certification in India

Campus and estate

Old Building

Centre Building, opened in 2019

Since 1902, LSE has been based at Clare Market and Houghton Street in Westminster. It is surrounded by a number of important institutions including the Royal Courts of Justice, all four Inns of Courts, Royal College of Surgeons, Sir John Soane’s Museum, and the West End is immediately across Kingsway from campus, which also borders the City of London and is within walking distance to Trafalgar Square and the Houses of Parliament.# ISO certification in India

32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields houses the Department of Economics and the International Growth Centre

In 1920, King George V laid the foundation of the Old Building. The campus now occupies an almost continuous group of around 30 buildings between Kingsway and Aldwych. Alongside teaching and academic space, the institution owns 11 student halls of residence across London, a West End theatre (the Peacock), early years centre, NHS medical centre and extensive sports ground in Berrylands, south London. LSE operates the George IV public house and the students’ union operates the Three Tuns bar. The school’s campus is noted for its numerous public art installations, which include Richard Wilson’s Square the Block, Michael Brown’s Blue Rain, Christopher Le Brun’s Desert Window, and Turner Prize-winner Mark Wallinger’s The World Turned Upside Down.# ISO certification in India

Since the early 2000s, the campus has undergone an extensive refurbishment project and a major fund-raising “Campaign for LSE” raised over £100 million in what was one of the largest university fund-raising exercises outside North America. This process began with the £35 million renovation of the British Library of Political and Economic Science by Foster and Partners.# ISO certification in India

The New Academic Building houses the LSE Law School

In 2003, LSE purchased the former Public Trustee building at 24 Kingsway and engaged Sir Nicholas Grimshaw to redesign it into an ultra-modern educational facility at a total cost of over £45 million – increasing the size of the campus by 120,000 square feet (11,000 m²). The New Academic Building opened for teaching in October 2008, with an official opening by Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on 5 November 2008.^[84] In November 2009 the school purchased the adjacent Sardinia House to house three academic departments and the nearby Old White Horse public house, before acquiring the freehold of the grade-II listed Land Registry Building at 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields in October 2010, which was reopened in March 2013 by The Princess Royal as the new home for the Department of Economics, International Growth Centre and its associated economic research centres. In 2015, LSE brought its ownership of buildings on Lincoln’s Inn Fields to six, with the purchase of 5 Lincoln’s Inn Fields on the north side of the square, which has since been converted into faculty accommodation.# ISO certification in India

Saw Swee Hock Student Centre

The first new campus building for more than 40 years, the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, named after the Singaporean statistician and philanthropist, opened in January 2014 following an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions. The building provides accommodation for the LSE Students’ Union, LSE accommodation office and LSE careers service as well as a bar, events space, gymnasium, rooftop terrace, learning café, dance studio, and media centre. Designed by architectural practice O’Donnell and Tuomey, the building achieved a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating for environmental sustainability, won multiple awards including the RIBA National Award and London Building of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize.# ISO certification in India