Oxford, United Kingdom, Europe
Completed · Education · Collegiate Quad With Load-Bearing Stone · Temperate · 2024
An expansion of New College comprising a school building, a curved main quad with 94 student bedrooms and pastoral spaces, and a 21.5m tower for the Gradel Institute of Charity. It is described as Oxford's first curved quad. The new buildings are wrapped in a curved skin of slanted, diamond-cut load-bearing limestone and sandstone tied back to a concrete structure.
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