Stirling winner Niall McLaughlin working on 12,000 sq m Hertford College scheme with landscape architect Kim Wilkie
Niall McLaughlin Architects has followed up their 2022 Stirling Prize-winning Magdalene College library in Cambridge with plans for a student accommodation scheme in Oxford.
The practice has submitted an application for a 12,000 sq m development for Hertford College, the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, Kellogg College and Reuben College.
Others working on the scheme include project manager CPC, QS Gleeds, structural and civil engineer Smith & Wallwork, M&E consultant Max Fordham and heritage consultant Donald Insall Associates.
It will occupy the interior of a mostly residential block of land bounded by Banbury Road, North Parade Avenue, Winchester Road and Bevington road, providing six new graduate accommodation buildings and converting existing villas at 43 - 45 Banbury road into student rooms.
A range of social spaces will also be housed within the Hertford College pavilion along with new department buildings for the South-east Asian Studies Centre.
Niall McLaughlin Architects said the Oxford scheme had been inspired by the neighbouring North Oxford Victorian Suburb conservation area鈥檚 residential context and the site鈥檚 existing villas.
Each accommodation building has been positioned directly behind existing villas, while street-facing buildings reference the scale and style of villas in the neighbourhood while allowing sightlines into the centre of the development in the interior of the site.
The new structures will be set within gardens designed by landscape architect Kim Wilkie, who Niall McLaughlin Architects previously collaborated with on that was largely scrapped in 2020 in favour of , which started construction last autumn.
Niall McLaughlin鈥檚 including Hopkins鈥� 100 Liverpool Street, Henley Halebrown鈥檚 333 Kingsland Road and M忙鈥檚 Sands End Arts & Community to win UK architecture鈥檚 top prize last October. It was built by Suffolk contractor Cocksedge.
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