The completion of this student residence is the latest milestone in over a decade of collaboration with Somerville College, in commissions for new constructions and various refurbishments, allowing a longstanding ambition to offer all its undergradua
Founded in the year 1263, Balliol is one of the oldest colleges at Oxford. To the east of its historic premises in Broad Street, around the lawn of a cricket pitch, an ambitious masterplan has been carried out which comprises eight blocks of student
Raised on a podium on the edge of a green meadow that serves as a cricket pitch, the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre was designed in the manner of a theater in a garden. It had to engage not only with the parkland and nearby canals but also with the univer
Along with the design of various new student halls for Somerville College, the studio has refurbished and enlarged the listed Wolfson Building, originally designed by Philip Dowson and a team at Arup Associates in the 1960s, and currently listed and
Somerville College was founded in 1879 as a college of the University of Oxford and was one of the first higher-education centers for women. It is situated at the north end of St Giles’ Street, one of the city’s main axes, and since its original foun
Established in 2009 by Amanda Levete, the London firm AL_A has built two new buildings in the heart of the historic British university campus: the William Doo Undergraduate Centre and the Dr Lee Shau Kee Access Centre. The Undergraduate Centre com
The proposal for Green Templeton College – Oxford University’s youngest college, founded in 2008 –, includes single-occupancy en-suite rooms for resident students, an open-plan staff office and communal study areas within a sequence of gardens... [+]
The School’s aim is to become a center of excellence for the study of government and public policy within Oxford University, teaching the practice of government in ways which will strengthen communities, create opportunities and foster cooperation ac
Near Oxford (England), on the campus of Ripon Theological College, the Bishop Edward King Chapel replaces a 19th-century temple. In terms of form the chapel is the result of a number of influences. The interior space has clear echoes of English Gothi
The typological family initiated by Stirling at Leicester and followed up at Cambridge has its third famous member in another student residence, this time at Oxford. Stirling thus left his mark on England’s two most celebrated university towns very e
