Stowe School / MICA

Curated by Fernanda Castro

Architects: MICA
Area: 800 m²
Year: 2017
Manufacturers: Wienerberger, Burmatex, Kahrs, Velfac
Landscape Consultants: Quartet Design
Acoustic Consultants: Sandy Brown
Main Contractor: Stepnell
Project Manager: Stowe School
Mechanical & Electrical Consultant: RED Engineering Quantity Surveyors Michael Edwards & Associates
Structural Engineer: Price & Myers

Text description provided by the architects. In the southwest of Stowe Gardens, a new girls’ boarding house has been introduced into the setting of one of the pre-eminent examples of the English Landscape Movement. Sheltered at the edge of a long dividing strip of structured woodland known as Pyramid Wood or Rook Spinney defining the edge of the Western Gardens, the area is concealed from the historically constructed grazing land once of English longhorns and rare breeds.

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