Last week saw Associated Architects down tools for a day on our annual away day. This year the whole of the office traveled to Oxford to stay in the Grade I listed, Arne Jacobsen designed, St Catherine’s College. After being treated to supper at the head table in the Great Hall, the practice witnessed an […]
Yesterday saw the topping out ceremony for the new Library and Student Services Centre at Royal Holloway University of London. So far the project has seen 1,243 tonnes of steel reinforcements installed, 6,720 cubic metres of concrete poured and 11,250 cubic metres of earth excavated. The ceremony was attended by the University staff and design […]
The construction of Associated Architects’ designed new campus library at the University of Birmingham has been documented in a timelapse video, captured by the University’s webcam. Enabling works commenced in March 2014; removing the existing running track, and construction starting in July 2014. Traffic was rerouted to the new road in December 2014 and topping […]
Yesterday we attended the official opening of the Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham. The museum has been at the University for nearly a century and Associated Architects designed the rejuvenation of the prestigious museum. The museum was officially opened by Sir Paul Nurse; a geneticist and Nobel Prize winner, Sir Professor David Eastwood; […]
Our Centre for Medicine at the University of Leicester features as a building study in the May 2016 edition of Architecture Today. The detailed study analyses the design and significance of the £42m project, which is currently the UK’s largest Passivhaus building and one of the largest in Europe. Passivhaus is a low-energy standard developed […]
Our design of the Curzon Building for Birmingham City University was shortlisted at the 2016 RICS Awards in the ‘Design through Innovation’ category. Although the project didn’t win an award it received a ‘Highly Commended’ accolade cited “as projects (that) impressed our panel of judges but were just pipped to the post by the winners on […]
Following the official opening of the Bartholomew Barn at King’s Hawford on the 14th May, St Gobain launched the project; being the first ever Multi-Comfort building in the UK yesterday. The Multi-Comfort building is a concept developed by St. Gobain which enhances the comfort of the building’s users. The 450sq.m barn is a multi-purpose sports […]
