The award winning project is a mixed-use regeneration scheme for Clare College Cambridge, featuring new student accommodation and market flats. The project was driven by the need to address the poor energy performance of the existing buildings, asbestos contamination and outdated layouts, and to provide more and improved student accommodation for the College. An initial feasibility study to retain and refurbish the 1930s buildings did not achieve the required occupancy numbers and accommodation layouts, and it was decided to construct three new buildings of contemporary design, using materials that harmonise with the surrounding properties and the residential street context. A series of pitched roofs, gables and articulation of the facades ensure that the new buildings respond positively to the surrounding architectural language and the site context. The facades of the new buildings are finished in a variegated beige grey brick to blend the new architecture into the surrounding urban fabric built from traditional Cambridge brick, with new roofs and dormers clad in dark grey zinc. A carefully considered landscape scheme provides generous amenity spaces for all residents, with enhanced soft landscaping, careful boundary treatment and increased biodiversity on site. Green roofs, on-site renewable energy generation and a community heating network with combined heat and power plant, together with a passive ‘fabric first’ approach to building construction and services contribute to the sustainability and quality of the redeveloped St. Regis site. The development has created 85 student units (a mix of en-suite rooms with shared kitchens, studios and flats) and 14 market flats.