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MANCHESTER MET WINS RIBA CLIENT OF YEAR
£27m building boost for Sheffield Hallam
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named Manchester Metropolitan University the 2014 RIBA Client of the Year. The award recognises the key role that a good client plays in the creation of fine architecture. Manchester Metropolitan University
was nominated by architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios for projects including Manchester School of Art and MMU Business School and an ongoing programme of buildings. Peter Clegg and Keith Bradley, of
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, said: “MMU’s briefs for both the School of Art and the Business School were clear from the outset – that the buildings should be flexible, sustainable, inclusive, uplifting and ‘iconic’. Fundamental to their success was strong governance, led by the Vice- Chancellor, John Brooks, who personally championed both projects. Brookes is passionate about sustainability and has set ambitious targets for the University to cut its carbon emissions, leading them to the top of the universities’ 'Green League' in 2013. “The client at Manchester
Metropolitan University was pivotal to delivering pioneering and inspiring new buildings for their estate. Testimony to the importance they put on not only good design, but on the importance of relationship, are repeat commissions for the contractors, architects and engineers.”
Sheffield Hallam University's brand new £27m development at Collegiate Crescent is now open to students and staff from law, politics, sociology and psychology courses. The new Heart of the Campus – a
three-storey development – has brought staff and students based at the campus together, in an open,
UWE build gets planning go-ahead
The new state-of-the-art building for the Faculty of Business and Law at UWE Bristol is one step closer having just got the go-ahead from South Gloucestershire Council planners. The new building
will be located at the heart of the new developments in the UWE Frenchay Campus Master Plan, on the northern side of a newly formed plaza. It will house Bristol Business School
and Bristol Law School and is part of the University's campus development
“The building will provide a first-class teaching and learning environment” Deputy VC Professor Jane Harrington
plan to build a University for the 21st century. UWE Bristol Deputy
Vice-Chancellor Professor Jane Harrington, who is also Vice Chair of the Association of Business Schools, said: “The building will provide a first-class teaching
and learning environment comprising lecture facilities,
teaching and seminar rooms, specialist learning facilities such as a trading room and law courts, and staff offices. “It will include specialist executive
development facilities as well as space for collaboration, business development and informal learning space – this wonderful new building will fulfil the aspirations of students, staff and the business community.”
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