Knight House, University of Sheffield, New Yorkshire Housing Architecture, English Project
Knight House for University of Sheffield
7 Nov 2020
Knight House
Design: AHR, Architects
Location: Sheffield, northern England, UK

74 creates stunning landmark and interiors at Knight House, University of Sheffield, for iQ Student Accommodation

New landmark student accommodation Knight House in Sheffield has been masterplanned and designed by Manchester-based architects and designers 74, who additionally created the project?s full interiors scheme, including bedrooms, corridors, wayfinding and all amenity spaces. The new-build architecture for the class-leading student accommodation offer was implemented by Leeds-based architects Cunniff Design, with 74 acting as client-side architectural advisor.
?We worked on this project from its very earliest days?, 74 Founder David Holt commented. ?74 was initially engaged to examine the ongoing strategy of iQ Student Accommodation?s Sheffield campus, made up of three buildings adjacent to the University of Sheffield. The brief was to re-organise the existing buildings on the site, but further study of the plans and immediate environs revealed the potential of an adjacent site that turned out to be in the company?s ownership, in use at the time as a car park. A promising further discovery was a lapsed planning permission for a 12-storey building on the site, whilst under previous ownership. Once we had the client?s go-ahead to propose a new bu...