Rhodes House, Oxford convening centre Building, English Architecture
Rhodes House Oxford Building
12 Aug 2020
Rhodes House, Oxford convening centre News
Design: Stanton Williams, Architects
Location: Oxford, England, UK
The Rhodes Trust awarded planning permission for world-class convening centre at Rhodes House

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Rhodes House, Oxford, 12 August 2020 – The Rhodes Trust is pleased to announce it has received planning permission for a new development, which is designed by Stirling-Prize winning architects Stanton Williams and will provide Rhodes House with a world-class convening centre.
The project will transform the Grade II* listed Rhodes House and will enable the Trust to expand its celebrated global scholarship programme by providing much-needed convening facilities, new offices, and residential accommodation. Designed by Sir Herbert Baker and completed in 1929, Rhodes House is located on South Parks Road and is set within extensive gardens. Stanton Williams? proposals will connect the building to its splendid landscape surroundings. Newly crafted interior spaces will be embedded within an expanded lower ground level, engaging with the garden on multiple levels and drawing natural daylight into the building. The new space will aim to bring together world leaders and Scholars and be a place where difficult discussions and different points of views can be shared and challenged by people of all backgrounds and nationalities ? in line with the Rho...