St. Catherine?s College Building, Accommodation Extension, English Architecture, Images, Architects
St. Catherine?s College in Oxford
University of Oxford Education Building Development, England ? design by Purcell
16 Oct 2017
St. Catherine?s College
Architects: Purcell
Location: Manor Road Oxford OX1 3UJ United Kingdom.
St Catherine?s College receives planning on Arne Jacobsen site

Purcell, the UK?s leading firm of architects, master planners and heritage consultants, has received planning for extensive building works on the site of Arne Jacobsen?s Grade I listed St. Catherine?s College in Oxford. Plans comprise four pavilions and extension works to provide 78 additional graduate bedrooms and a new graduate centre built on the site. The cylindrical graduate centre references Arne Jacobsen?s design and features a new Middle Common Room, a seminar room and a multi-use space on the ground floor.
Founded in 1962, the college?s main campus was designed in its totality by Arne Jacobsen, and is arguably one of the best-preserved pieces of his work. Everything within the original campus was designed or approved by Jacobsen: the buildings, furniture and landscape gardening ? even the cutlery. Over the decades, the college has commissioned additional buildings on the site, notably by Jacobsen?s assistant Knud Holscher (1982) and Stirling Prize winner Stephen Hodder (1994, 2005). The entrance to the college with its view over Jacobsen?s watergarden was remodelled by Sir Philip Pow...