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New £92m College of
West Anglia campus
PLANNING permission has been granted workshops, studios, classrooms, IT rooms in teaching and learning spaces.
for the College of West Anglia’s £92m new and sport facilities. Catering, retail, staff “A further driver is the desire to
campus close to King’s Lynn town centre, and support facilities will also be provided. showcase learning throughout the building.
designed by Bond Bryan Architects. Central to the design is a large multi-
The 17.4-acre development – one of the Flexibility functional central atrium (which draws
first within the Nar-Ouse Regeneration Area Bond Bryan associate director Andrew natural light and ventilation deep into the
– will transform a brown-field site into a Brodie comments: “The design of the main plan. At the centre of the atrium is a
centre of learning which is designed to be building focuses on the delivery of an double volume learning resources centre)
accessible to both students and locals. The extremely diverse curriculum under one with a dramatic glazed curved wall
main building will comprise 27,700 sqm of roof while meeting the College’s (overlooking the atrium). This places
educational facilities on four floors providing requirement for current and future flexibility learning literally at the heart of the building.”
Buckingham to begin
Falmer stadium
CONSTRUCTION gets underway next month on the new stadium
for Brighton & Hove Albion FC. Buckingham Group has been
appointed main contractor in a contract valued at over £60m.
The Community Stadium will seat 22,500 fans and is to be
built to the east of the city at Falmer, adjacent to the existing
University of Brighton campus. The Stadium has been designed
by KSS Design Group to interact with the surrounding natural
landscape on the edge of the Sussex Downs. The curved arch
roof reflects the shape of the rolling countryside and will be
clad with clear pale blue polycarbonate sheeting to “nestle like
a jewel” within the surrounding landscape.
Work on the new Falmer Stadium design started ten years
ago, when the club found itself homeless in 1997 after the
previous owner sold the Goldstone Ground for retail
development. Planning consent was secured in July 2007 after
two public planning inquiries.
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