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Newcastle University Park and Kensington Terrace Student Accommodation

Newcastle

Project Details

£10m to £49.99M

New Build

Practice

MCW Architects

MCW Architects , The Oast House , Malting Lane , CAMBRIDGE , Cambridgeshire , CB3 9HF

This new development regenerates the north eastern edge of the city centre campus with a 350 bed facility which includes the refurbishment of the existing Kensington Terrace along with three new buildings. The original Park Terrace is replaced with a courtyard building which, with a new mews block and a small pavilion connected to the north of Kensington Terrace, re-define an original right of way and make a semi-public square as the focal point of this new student community. Designed to achieve EPC A rating, the language is restrained and ordered, with locally sourced bricks and carefully proportioned windows, pitched roofs and zinc clad dormer windows. The previously underused Drummond Square was re-energised as a garden space for all the occupants to enjoy.