Lyth Building Nottingham Trent University, Southwell, English Architecture Development Images
Lyth Building Nottingham Trent University
29 April 2022
The Lyth Building, Southwell – Nottingham Trent University, England, UK
Thursday 28th of April 2022 – five projects were selected by the expert jury, who visited all of the shortlisted projects.
Design: Evans Vettori Architects
Address: Brackenhurst Ln, Southwell NG25 0QFy, England, United Kingdom

Photos © Martine Hamilton Knight
The Lyth Building, Brackenhurst Campus
Jury Report
Hosting teaching, research and office accommodation for Nottingham Trent University?s (NTU) school of animal, rural and environmental sciences, the new Lyth Building adopts a relaxed ?H? plan form. Arriving on the north side, you are received by the main entrance and gateway to a south-facing courtyard sheltering between two wings.
On the west are the main flexible lecture theatre and refectory, while on the quieter eastern flank are teaching and research lab spaces over ground floor offices. The arrangement of rooms in the plan is logical, but what raises this project to architectural excellence are a series of additional design moves that lock the building to context, and develop a unique identity for both building and campus based on a natural approach to sustainability through passive design.

Firstly, both wings align themselves with the orientation of their listed neighbours, thus opening the angle of the courtyard between to cat...