Faculty of English
View all projectsThe Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, has been the home to some of the most eminent critics, scholars, teachers and writers of English Literature. The new English Faculty is part of our wider masterplan for the university's Sidgwick arts and humanities campus. The building forms three sides of a west-facing courtyard containing a garden and terrace. A library, cafe and circulation to the main lecture rooms all face onto the garden at ground floor level, with three floors of academic and administrative offices on the upper levels. The building sets back at its entrance to accommodate an existing, protected, holm oak tree.
- City
- Cambridge, UK
- Use
- Education
- Client
- Estate Management & Building Service, University of Cambridge
- Status
- Completed
- Size
- 4,460sqm
- Awards
David Urwin Heritage Award Most Sustainable and Efficient Building 2006, The Royal Fine Art Commission Trust Building of the Year Award 2005
- Collaborators
Structure: Whitbybird
Services: BuroHappold
Landscape: J & L Gibbons
Acoustics: Arup Acoustics
Cost: Faithful & Gould
Fire: BuroHappold
Contractor: Wates Construction Ltd
Theatre consultants: Carr & Angier
Photography: Dennis Gilbert/VIEW, Nick Guttridge