Lower Mountjoy Teaching and Learning Centre supports the development and adoption of new pedagogies, providing technologically enabled and future-proof teaching spaces within a collaborative and inspirational environment for learning. The building is the first strategic project to emerge from the university masterplan that we developed with Durham University in 2017. Our independent research into how spatial design can support the success of innovative pedagogies, informed the development of a teaching and learning ‘space model’, which became the basis for the accommodation brief for the building and subsequently the internal layout. A top-lit central courtyard forms the social and circulation hub of the building giving access to the café, 250 and 500 seat lecture theatres, seminar spaces and project rooms. A diverse mix of teaching spaces surrounds the lecture theatres, supporting traditional seminars as well as macro-collaboration and micro-collaboration. The vaulted top floor of the centre provides an extensive ‘learning commons’ with a broad range of settings for focused, contemplative, active and collaborative learning.