The firm Stanton Williams has completed new social and residential facilities for Emmanuel College in Cambridge. The project include refurbishing the existing construction, integrating them with the recent builds and into a setting of university premises that dates back four centuries. Encompassing 5,770 square meters, it is the most significant carried out at Emmanuel College in over 100 years, offering housing, study areas, and spaces for social interaction, all connected in a network of landscsaped courtyards and passageways designed to foster communal life.

Conceived as a dialogue between old and new, the design addresses the context through the use of red bricks. A new residential block known as Young’s Court – in honor of an alumnus, the polymath Thomas Young (1773-1829) – provides 48 rooms for students. The operation included revamping and enlarging Furness Lodge, a listed building, to accommodate venues for seminars, a hall for events, music practice rooms, and a bar.