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Kingerlee have recently been awarded a £7.4m project to construct the new Gateway Buildings for St Antony's College in Oxford. This development adjacent to the Woodstock Road is due to commence in September 2011 with completion programmed for student intake in April 2013. The two buildings comprise 54no en suite study bedrooms along with a porters lodge and entrance facilities along with flexible office space to the upper floor. The traditional and listed stone boundary wall to the St Antony's site will be re-configured to accommodate a new entrance forecourt. A new energy centre for the scheme will be located in the existing and listed Hilda Besse building and will be carefully linked to the two new Gateway Buildings. This will also provide a new and upgraded system to the existing facility. The reinforced concrete framed building will be dressed with a facade incorporating stone and bronze cladding. Renewable energy is provided by ground source heat bores carefully inserted under the existing traditional Oxford lawned quadrangle along with solar panels placed at roof level. The exposed concrete finishes will act as a heat sink which complements the renewable technologies to provide sustainable and thermally efficient buildings. To view a live webcam of the site please click here and please click here to view an electronic walk through of the project.
The International language school provides facilities across its two academic buildings and on site residential blocks. The new development provides a new and exciting impact and a modern entrance and reception incorporating extensive areas of two storey glazing. This will incorporate a new courtyard, feature glazed staircase, theatre, classrooms and office areas. The superstructure comprises of a steel frame, beam and block floors and pre-cast concrete planks with single-ply roofing. External elevations are provided with contrasting materials including Thermowood timber boarding, glass, render, zinc and aluminium. Extensive sequential refurbishment is to be carried out within the existing buildings to provide improved teaching and circulation areas and all external elevations are to be improved with applied render, new soffits, fascia and rainwater goods. The externals areas will be completed with a feature curved rendered wall, automatic gates, footpaths parking and lighting. The project is due for completion Spring 2012.
The new three story ICT building is located on the schools Headington campus and is part of a rolling programme of work, this follows the music block constructed by Kingerlee the previous year. The load bearing masonry structure is constructed off CFA piled foundations and ground beams supporting a reinforced concrete ground floor slab. Upper floors are precast concrete and accessed by precast concrete staircases. A new passenger lift serves all three floors. The external elevations match the existing building stock with double glazed aluminium doors and windows. Internal walls are finished with painted plaster work and pre-finished oak joinery. The building is positioned into the slope of the existing ground and accommodates changes in levels with steps down to the lower areas along with hard landscaping and paving to its perimeter.
St Anne's College, Oxford Located within the existing St Anne's College campus off the Woodstock Road, Oxford, Kingerlee have been appointed to construct a new kitchen facility. A temporary kitchen is currently being utilised and will be de-commissioned at the end of the project. The works comprise of the demolition of the existing kitchen and the construction of the new single storey kitchen extension. Construction details include a length of secant piled wall, sedum roof with decking covering a plant room, internal finishes and fittings, services and connections to the existing Dining Hall. External works include drainage, diversion of services, a new combined substation and bin store, parking and paved areas, soft landscaping and fencing. The extension will have an external containerised plant room.
Kingerlee have recently commenced a mixed use, student accommodation and retail development, on a design and build basis on the Cowley Road, Oxford. Working alongside local designers, Riach Architects OMK Structural Engineers and Qoda Services Engineers, Kingerlee are developing a brown field site formerly occupied by an end of terrace house, public WC and police facilities. The new development will consist of 33 student bedrooms contained in 10 flats each with its own kitchen/ lounge area, a speculative office unit, retail space and public facilities including a police box and public conveniences along with hard and soft external landscaping. Enabling works commenced in August and comprise of establishing the site boundary, service diversions, and demolition of the existing buildings. The new construction consists of part steel frame, part traditional cavity wall construction with precast elements forming all floors. The roof is a poured poly carbonate membrane with zinc mansard style features. The project is due for completion late summer 2012.
Kingerlee were appointed for the redevelopment of the Old Fire Station in Oxford. Oxford City Council is working with Crisis, the national charity for single homeless people, to redevelop the Old Fire Station, after a bid was awarded funding from the Government's Places of Change Programme. This was an exciting project for Kingerlee as we were involved in building the original fire station in 1896. The Old Fire Station will home a new Crisis Skylight centre providing education, training and employment opportunities for homeless and vulnerably housed people and a social enterprise, Crisis Skylight Cafe, open to the public. There are also high quality, flexible spaces for artistic professional development and training, and for community groups to use to offer performance and visual arts events, regular classes and courses for the public. These spaces accommodate an auditorium, a gallery and retail space, and a creative workspace for artists and designers. The Old Fire Station opened as a working fire station in 1896 and remained the main fire station until 1971.The Crisis Skylight opened in 2011. Pre-opening video of the Crisis Skylight in Oxford. BBC Radio Oxford interview Crisis Skylight Oxford.
This new development for Pembroke College includes attractive state-of-the-art facilities, such as a 170-seat multi-purpose auditorium, an art gallery, a new cafe, teaching and function rooms, all set around two new quadrangles. The new complex will become an integral part of Pembroke's main site with an elegant footbridge to be built over Brewer Street connecting it directly to the College's Chapel Quad. The new buildings, in the heart of Oxford, will use traditional materials in a modern context and will help to re-draw the appearance of an undistinguished part of Littlegate Street, providing a sympathetic facelift to an area of vacant sites and defunct industrial buildings adjacent to Campion Hall. Following a competitive tender process, Kingerlee were selected as main contractor for the project. The planned construction cost of the development is £16.5 million. Site demolition, archaeology and construction commenced at the end of 2010, with completion scheduled in 2012. Virtual Tour of the new building. Click here for more details on this project.
This project will provide the school with a new state of the art sports facility. It will include large and medium sized multi use areas including changing rooms, showers along with teaching class rooms. The scheme also includes an external all weather multi use sports area.
The structural steel framed building is located within an extensively mass excavated and sheet piled perimeter. The external envelope is finished with facing brickwork, through colour render, timber cladding and a standing seam roof. The sports halls will be fitted out with cricket nets, netball, football, badminton and multi sports pitch configuration along with a viewing gallery to encourage spectator participation.
Brasenose College, Oxford
Brasenose College was established in 1509 and has a fine legacy of historic buildings. Modernising and rationalising the social, dining and catering facilities to meet the needs of students, fellows and conference delegates has provided the opportunity to reinstate the historical narrative of the buildings.
The existing Hall and the conversion of the former medieval kitchen will provide dining facilities for students and conference delegates outside term time. Better circulation routes and links will be provided enabling the kitchen facilities to serve both ground and first floor levels. Access for the disabled is also improved by new lifts, resolving the complicated level differences.
A key feature of the design will be a double height pendentive dome that fills a space between two buildings, bringing the exposed external stone elevations of the Old Quad and the Jackson building inside a foyer. The dome allows the roof profile to span across the space without clashing with the existing architectural detailing. This will provide access to Senior Fellows Common Rooms and Dining Rooms on the first floor. Careful dialogue with both the local conservation officers and English Heritage will continue throughout the project.
Turl Quod Refurbishment - Lincoln College, Oxford
The project consists of the refurbishment and conversion of the ground floor of a three floor college student accommodation building in Turl Street, Oxford. The site has an extremely restricted entrance and some of Kingerlees roles include the co-ordination and installation of new incoming services, co-ordination of archaeological investigations, piled foundations and a structural steel frame. The existing building dates from 1926 and is built in a mock Tudor style around a very narrow, restricted, L-shaped paved courtyard. The building is surrounded on all sides by the backs of shops fronting Turl Street, The Covered Market and the Mitre, all of which require continued operation services and escape routes maintained through the site during the course of the works. Work commenced in July 2011 and is due for completion early 2012.
The new 15,000 sq ft Archive Centre is located on a rural site within the grounds of the National Trust's Waddesdon Estate in Buckinghamshire. The scheme provides passively controlled archive storage facilities, archivist accommodation and a uniquely designed reading room along with offices and extensive external remodeling and landscaping. The reading room design includes an Oak Grid Shell structure and significant areas of full height structural glazing providing a dramatic outlook of the Chiltern Hills.
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