MEB Design were appointed by the Provincial Bursar of Blackfriars’ Dominican Council in late 2018. The brief was to strip out and redesign a dilapidated building located at 32-33 St Giles’, in the historic centre of Oxford, to provide a ground floor retail unit, Blackfriars’ Province administration offices and Blackfriars Hall teaching and conference facilities over the middle two floors, secure archive storage in the basement, as well as accommodation for four post-graduate students with communal dining area, kitchen and roof terrace, on the top floor. This subsequently became a fully accessible student bedroom / flat. The project was handed over 7 months after works began.