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Rambert School of Music and Contemporary Dance / MICA Architects

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000

A small but carefully designed extension to an existing dance studio for the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, on the School’s Violet Needham Chapel site. The School occupies two sites in a listed building and a locally listed building facing each other across St Margaret’s Drive. The two sites were extended in the early 2000s to provide specialist dance studio accommodation.

Cheng Yu Tung Building / MICA Architects

Andreas Luco — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 06:00:00 +0000

MICA has recently completed a prominent and unique mixed-use building in central Oxford, the Cheng Yu Tung building for Jesus College, which brings together teaching, retail, research, NHS healthcare, and student living in a third quad for the Elizabethan college.

The Great Hall and Library for the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn / MICA

Andreas Luco — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

The Great Hall and Library Project for the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn is the culmination of MICA’s 2014 masterplan for the Inn’s historic estate. The project is comprised of a series of largely discrete proposals that are nevertheless holistic in their resolution of the Inn’s key issues. The project included the sensitive refurbishment of the Grade II* Listed Great Hall & Library and the addition of significant additional floor space through excavation adjacent to the Great Hall (for education and conferencing use) and through the replacement of an existing, lower quality building with a contemporary and complementary extension to the Library’s facilities. Restoration The refurbishment of the Great Hall removes recent poor-quality alterations, restoring many of the building’s heritage features and reinstating the original ceremonial entrance and improving accessibility throughout the building.

White Lion House / MICA

Daniel Tapia — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 13:00:00 +0000

White Lion House is a mixed-use building containing 13 social and affordable rented homes in Central London, located at the threshold of a new public space around Centre Point. It is the first completed phase of the ongoing redevelopment of the Grade II listed Centre Point complex. Undertaking a civic role, the building acts as both a gateway to the new St Giles Square and defines a new public space in front reinforcing the historic streetscape. The building’s façades make sense of the site’s historic geometries – facing both the exuberant modernism of Centre Point tower to the north-east and the austere but radical Palladian spire of St-Giles-in-the-Fields to the south.

The Queen’s College  / MICA

Cristobal Rojas — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 09:00:00 +0000

We have completed a major underground extension to, and refurbishment of The Queen’s College Library in Oxford. The 17th Century Library is considered one of the nest existing in Oxford, both in terms of its collection and grand building, although has long been overused and overcrowded. The new Library provides an additional 800m2 of space (doubling its size) and includes a new light-filled reading room; an archive for Queen’s historic Antiquarian collection; a new Peet library of Egyptology and a multi- purpose room for collaborative learning. The new Library sits beneath a new garden set at a subtle slope providing a new continuous rooflight into the slope of a Ha-Ha. The new rooflight brings light and extraordinary views to the spaces below. The existing Library has been liberated by the extra space and has been able to be returned to its existing arrangement and grandeur providing a single generous entrance to all three library levels.

Stowe School / MICA

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 03:00:00 +0000

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.