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Schwarzman Center for the Humanities - University of Oxford / Hopkins Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0000

The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities marks a step-change for Oxford, consolidating the Humanities into a critical mass of teaching, research, and outreach. For the city, it introduces within the building a new public "street" and a major cultural venue, embodying collaboration as a foundation of its design.

AFL Architects’ All-Electric Stadium in Oxford Receives Planning Approval

Antonia Piñeiro — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 05:30:00 +0000

Oxford United Football Club's planning application for a new all-electric football stadium has been approved by Cherwell District Council. The scheme was developed by a team that includes AFL Architects, Mott Macdonald engineering services, Fabrik landscape design, and Ridge and Partners built environment consultants. Designed for a capacity of 16,000 spectators, the master plan also proposes a 1,000-person events space, a 180-bed hotel, a restaurant, a health and wellbeing centre, and a new public plaza with gardens.

Quatrefoil House / Hyde + Hyde Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Quatrefoil House sees the refurbishment and extension of an early Gothic Revival home, on a prominent corner plot in the North Oxford Victorian Suburb Conservation Area. With the house of special architectural interest to the Conservation Area, the client was eager to build upon the character of this 1870s, semi-detached building to create a deeply contextualized yet notably contemporary home, perfectly suited to the family's varying spatial needs. Since the 1970s, the building has been used by The Eckersley School of English as a student residence. With the building fabric found to be structurally sound but severely neglected and in poor condition, Hyde + Hyde's retrofit-led approach sought to celebrate and prioritize the restoration of the retainable historic fabric, while completing a significant upgrade to transform this into a family home, for 21st-century living.

Broche Coffee Shop / NAAW

Hana Abdel — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 02:00:00 +0000

“Building with Mushrooms: Broche Coffee Shop” - Our latest project, Broche, is a compact coffee shop nestled at an intersection in one of Oxford’s historic residential neighborhoods. Given the neighborhood’s protected status, our goal was to refresh this understated corner, making it both inviting and comfortable while respecting its context.

Exeter College Cohen Quad / Alison Brooks Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000

This project is a 21st-century reinvention of the ‘collegiate quadrangle’, the basis of Oxford’s academic and urban fabric. The Oxford quadrangle is an 800-year-old pedagogical model that combines student rooms with teaching spaces, organised around landscaped courtyards. Every Oxford College is a variation of this typology. Alison Brooks Architects’ new 6,000 m² Cohen Quad will expand Exeter College’s 700-year-old campus in the heart of Oxford, with undergraduate and graduate living accommodation for 90 students, auditorium, seminar rooms, social learning spaces (The Learning Commons), special collections archive, café, roof terrace, offices and fellows’ accommodation.

Foster + Partners Reveals Designs for Ellison Institute of Technology Campus Expansion in Oxford

Nour Fakharany — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 05:30:00 +0000

Foster + Partners has just revealed the designs for the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) campus in Oxford. Initially established as a research and development center, the campus is now gaining a significant expansion. The Institute’s core focus and research was around cancer, wellness, and public health at large, and it is now extending its mission to encompass new vital domains: medical science and healthcare, food security, sustainable agriculture, clean energy, climate change, and government policy economics.

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.

University of Oxford Announces Largest Project in its History, Designed by NBBJ

Christele Harrouk — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 06:30:00 +0000

The University of Oxford and internationally-renowned architecture practice NBBJ have unveiled images of the new Life and Mind Building. The development, the University’s largest building project in its history, will be the new home of the Departments of Experimental Psychology and Biology, including Plant Sciences and Zoology, accommodating 800 students and 1,200 researchers.

Amanda Levete Architects Unveil Oxford University Addition

Evan Pavka — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 06:00:00 +0000

London-based AL_A, spearheaded by Amanda Levete, have revealed their design for two new buildings at the Wadham College site of the historic Oxford University in England. The Dr. Lee Shau Kee Building and William Doo Undergraduate Centre will provide much-needed space for undergraduate services to support the University's access programs as well as new gathering places for the student body. The firm has been developing the expansion since securing the project after an invited design competition in the summer of 2016.

Longwall Library - Magdalen College / Wright & Wright Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Wright & Wright Architects’ reworking of a Grade II* listed building, is a radical reinvention of the concept of a library.

Cambridge To Oxford Connection: Ideas Competition Reveals Gallery of Finalists

Tessa Forde — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 08:00:00 +0000

The National Infrastructure Commission and Malcolm Reading Consultants have revealed an online gallery of the four final design concepts for The Cambridge to Oxford Connection: Ideas Competition.

Cambridge To Oxford Connection: Ideas Competition Announces Shortlist

Sabrina Syed — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Four teams have been shortlisted as finalists in the Cambridge To Oxford Connection: Ideas Competition, which will select a winner this fall.

A New Train Station in Cambridge Has Sparked Controversy Among Mathematicians

Megan Schires — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 09:30:00 +0000

A new train station in Cambridge is getting a lot of attention from a surprising audience: mathematicians. Cambridge North Station is clad in aluminum panels with a geometrical cutout design. The architecture firm, Atkins, originally claimed that the pattern was derived from Cambridge alumnus John Conway’s “Game of Life,” but eagle-eyed mathematicians soon realized that was incorrect. As the above video points out, the design is in fact based on a mathematical rule studied by Stephen Wolfram, an Oxford alumnus, much to the dismay of rival university Cambridge. Though the firm’s website still references Conway, a Senior Architectural Designer at Atkins, Quintin Doyle, has since confirmed that it was, in fact, Wolfram’s Rule 30 that they used in the design.

Belsize Architects Creates Pavilion Residences for Oxford University Students

Sabrina Santos — Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:00:00 +0000

Belsize Architects has released the plans for 6 Pavilions, a new student accommodation project that will form a part of the University College’s larger masterplan in north Oxford.

Albion Barn / Studio Seilern Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 13:00:00 +0000

Blavatnik School of Government / Herzog & de Meuron

Diego Hernández — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 04:00:00 +0000

Such a vision requires a specific response and building.

Oxford Unveils 5 Proposals Seeking to Overhaul St Hilda's College

Karissa Rosenfield — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:00:00 +0000

Oxford University has released five shortlisted proposals to overhaul and extend its St Hilda's College. Part of the invited competition Redefining St Hilda's, the concepts are designed to expand student and Fellow accommodation, while providing new social and teaching spaces, Middle Common Room, Porters' Lodge and entrance for the college.

Zaha Hadid's Investcorp Building Honored with Oxford Preservation Trust Award

Karissa Rosenfield — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:00:00 +0000

Since 1957, the Middle East Center at St. Antony's College has been the University of Oxford's facility for research and teaching on the Arab world, Iran, Israel and Turkey. Over the years, the center's world-class archive has grown exponentially, leading to the commission of Zaha Hadid Architects to expand its facility; the recently completed Investcorp Building doubled the center's library and archive space, while delicately integrating a new 117-seat lecture theater into the college's restricted site.