Stainless steel-clad building with a complex, doubly-curved form, large glazed end facades and interfaces with historic buildings at St Antony’s College.

2016 RIBA National Award
2016 RIBA South Award
2016 WAF
— Higher Education & Research Award
2015 Oxford Preservation Trust New Building Award

Eckersley O’Callaghan were the facade consultants for St Antony’s College, Oxford, during the construction of a new extension to their Middle East Centre building. On behalf of the college, our role was to provide compliance monitoring over the design and build construction team through final contractor design, fabrication and installation.

The building doubled the space available for their library and archive, and also provided additional study space and a new 117-seat auditorium.

Clad in a complex facade with doubly-curved stainless steel panels. Large glazed facades form the two ends of the building, which employ double-glazed units with custom frit patterns on multiple layers.

The building interfaces with two historic buildings and makes a striking intervention to a traditional Oxford quad.

Location
Oxford, UK

Client
St Antony’s College

Architect
Zaha Hadid Architects