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INTRODUCTION Part of the Ingenium international group of companies, NORR is a leading, UK-based, architectural practice, delivering intelligent solutions to clients in both the public and private sectors. We offer the highest level of service in both design and technical delivery. Our approach to projects is always client-focused: we deliver bespoke solutions innovating to suit the precise needs of the client. Our concept design and detailed construction technology is delivered with a high level of management experience, always with a Director allocated to every client throughout the commission. Our track record of award winning projects reflects the quality of our work and our attention to detail. Serving the needs of a diverse international client base, we create the spaces and places that people value for…
Creative Integrity Economic Performance Environmental Responsibility Personal Experience Social Contribution
This is our philosophy for achieving bespoke strategic solutions for clients in every commission…
…this is what we call ‘Intelligent Architecture’.
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OUR ETHOS NORR’s focus on client requirements encompasses the consideration of a set of 5 parameters which, together combine to create a unique strategic blueprint for every project.
We call this ‘Intelligent Architecture’.
CREATIVE INTEGRITY At the heart of all successful architecture. Our approach ensures that each project delivers at aesthetic, practical levels and technical levels.
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Fundamental to every project’s success. Creating high quality environments that are commercially robust ‘Added value’ by ‘Intelligent Architcture’ is central to NORR.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY All buildings have a short and longer term impact on the environment. NORR pioneer low-cost, commercially viable, sustainable designs.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE A project ultimately succeeds or fails at an individual level: buildings must work on a human scale and create a positive experience for every user.
SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION NORR believes buildings can, and should, have a positive impact on the quality of life of those who use them, directly or indirectly.
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STUDIO LOCATIONS Edmonton Ottawa
Inverness Aberdeen
Toronto Calgary Vancouver
Kingston Chicago
Sacramento
Glasgow
Detroit Newcastle
Leeds
Dubai
Cambridge Birmingham
Abu Dhabi Mumbai
London
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NORR’s involvement in the education sector goes beyond the delivery of construction projects; we advise educational establishments on their estates and are also involved with sector advisory organisations.
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EDUCATION SCHOOLS NORR believes that designing for children and young people is not just an exciting opportunity, but also a great privilege and a huge personal responsibility. We understand that the creation of a stimulating learning environment has the capacity to directly influence the development of children. FURTHER EDUCATION Our excellent reputation is firmly based on collaborative working with colleges to create spaces that enrich the experience of staff and students. HIGHER EDUCATION The complex requirements of universities present a particular opportunity: to provide clients with design excellence that genuinly reflects the aspirations of the aspirations of their users.
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Aberdeen College Aberdeen
Gardyne Campus and Theatre Dundee
University of Abertay Library Dundee
New Student Centre Dundee
Dundee College
University of Abertay
University of Abertay
Aberdeen College 6,500 m²
£10 million
2010
23,000 m²
£43 million
June 2011
5,250 m²
£8 million
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£4.2 million
2005
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Innovative Training Facility Glasgow
Small Animal Hospital Glasgow
Clydebank College Glasgow
Langside College Glasgow
John Wheatley College 2,000 m²
£3.8 million
University of Glasgow 2001
4,500 m²
£10.5 million
Clydebank College September 2009
17,500 m²
Langside College
£33 million
2007
14,070 m²
£30 million
October 2011
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Chrystal MacMillan Building Edinburgh
South Lanarkshire College East Kilbride
Middlesbrough College Middlesbrough
Southport College Redevelopment Southport
University of Edinburgh
South Lanarkshire College
5,500 m²
£10.5 million
2008
15,500 m²
£23 million
Middlesbrough College 2008
32,000 m²
Southport College
£56 million
June 2008
1,100 m²
£2 million
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53° Student Union Preston
Media Factory Preston
Carnegie Pavilion Headingley, Leeds
Sports Hall Liverpool
University of Central Lancashire
University of Central Lancashire
Leeds Metropolitan University
John Moores University
£6.5 million
10,000 m²
4,000 m²
£3 million
2007
£12 million
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£20 million
July 2010
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Student Union Sheffield
Cauldon Campus Stoke-on-Trent
Burslem Campus Stoke-on-Trent
City College Norwich Norwich
University of Sheffield
Stoke On Trent College
Stoke On Trent College
City College Norwich
1,100 m²
4,200 m²
3,500 m²
2007
£15 million
£8 million
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School of Chemical Engineering Birmingham
Lichfield Centre Lichfield
South Banks Art Centre, Bedford College Bedford
University Centre Milton Keynes
University of Birmingham
Staffordshire University
Connell Mott MacDonald
Milton Keynes University
3,300 m²
£2 million
£3.3 million
December 2002
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Cripps Court, Magdalene College Cambridge
Anglia Ruskin University Chelmsford
Horticulture & Science Teaching Centre Maidenhead
Blizard Building Whitechapel, London
Haymills / University of Cambridge
William Verry
BCA (Berkshire College of Agriculture)
Queen Mary, University of London
3,700 m²
2,400 m²
850 m²
9,000 m²
£8 million
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£5 million
£5.5 million
2009
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South Thames College London
Ben Pimlott Building New Cross, London
University of Essex Gateway Southend
East Surrey College Redhill
Goldsmiths, University of London
Morgan Ashurst
East Surrey College
3,600 m²
14,730 m²
18,000 m²
South Thames College 20,500 m²
£41 million
2009
£6.4 million
January 2005
£20 million
May 2005
£43 million
2010
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Relocation of Bexhill College East Sussex
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£10 million
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Beacon Technology Centre Brockenhurst Brockenhurst College 1,350 m²
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CLIENT University of Glasgow SCALE 4,500 m² VALUE £15 million COMPLETION 2009 AWARDS 2009 RIAS Andrew Doolan Award for Best Building in Scotland 2009 GIA Supreme Award and GIA Award 2010 RIBA Regional Award 2010 Gold Best Public Building Roses Design Awards
SMALL ANIMAL HOSPITAL GLASGOW, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION The Small Animal Hospital’s great triumph is the unique and ingenious way it is set into it’s sensitive landscape, with a sweeping grassed roof creating a new hillside in this beautiful context. The rooftop ‘lantern’ and the boldly defined entrance do however, ensure that this superb building declares its presence and scale. This is a highly complex work of architecture which sets new standards in the design of buildings for veterinary medicine. A Bauder green roof technology was employed, with membrane, insulation, egg crates, pebbles, soil and grass. Gabion cladding ‘holds’ the structure and emphasises the relationship between ground and building. Consulting rooms are separated from the private hospital space, ensuring a direct relationship between staff and clients and emphasising the desire to maintain an open and welcoming building. Overall the project is an excellent example of how to build well within a sensitive context.
2011 Civic Trust Award The Bryan Munford Award for Building of the Year 2010 2011 New Referral Practice Innovative Design from the British Vet Hospital Association 2010 Green Roofing Awards, Best Project
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CLIENT Queen Mary University of London SCALE 9,000 m² VALUE £34 million COMPLETION 2005 AWARDS 2009 The Chicago Athenaeum, International Architecture Award 2006 RIBA Education, London 2006 Civic Trust Award 2005 Leaf Award, Best Use of Technology within a Large Scheme
BLIZARD BUILDING QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION The Blizard Building, for Queen Mary College, University of London, creates a environment for research staff and students that stimulates the exchange of information between departments, physically opening up the school and engendering new clarity in its workings. Traditional research laboratory design tends to isolate the scientific research functions. The unique interaction between research departments and public facilities within the building has been achieved through the detailed consultation with representatives of the scientist user groups, who have actively engaged in the design process and project aspirations of cross-fertilisation and interaction. Individual departments are placed within the structure to be identifiable to each other and from the building’s exterior. The forms, suspended within the glass pavilion, house seminar and teaching spaces; the central tenet of transparency for the college and its operations, and the hope that the forms within the structure will be shared with a broader community of local schools and other users, prompts the use of amorphous forms and bright colours, eliciting interest and enthusiasm from outside the building as well as within. In doing so the project delivers great visual richness with a simple cost effective envelope offering educational lessons for similar building types.
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CLIENT University of Abertay SCALE 5,250 m²
UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY LIBRARY DUNDEE, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
VALUE £8 million
Following a limited design competition in 1995, NORR was commissioned to design a new library for The University of Abertay, Dundee, which has since become the gateway to the University.
COMPLETION 1998
Three distinctive building elements reflect the very different accommodation requirements: lecture spaces are contained within the tall drum form to the rear of the site, open plan library decks with a curved glazed wall provide views westward to the Sheriff Court, and service areas are housed in a solid rectangular form. A roof canopy serves to mark the entrance and unite the three core parts of the design with a satisfyingly civic whole.
AWARDS 1998 RIBA Award 1998 Scottish Design Awards ‘Best New Building’ 1998 Regeneration of Scotland Award 1998 Sir Robert Grieve Award
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CLIENT University of Abertay VALUE ÂŁ4.2 million COMPLETION 2005
UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY NEW STUDENT CENTRE DUNDEE, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION NORR was commissioned to provide the University of Abertay, Dundee with a new student centre. Located on a city centre site diagonally opposite the award-winning University of Abertay library, also designed by NORR. The accommodation comprises high quality social spaces including bars, centralised food offers and a basement nightclub. Together these buildings provide the University with a legible focus to its overall campus. The project also provides student welfare facilities, a bookshop and University cultural activities including a multi-purpose performance space and an exhibition space with external terrace. Further contributing to the genuine buzz and feel of this city centre campus.
CLIENT Middlesbrough College SCALE 32,000 m² VALUE £56 million COMPLETION 2008
MIDDLESBROUGH COLLEGE MIDDLESBROUGH, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION The Middlehaven area of Middlesbrough was a typical run-down industrial area of the town. It had however a spectacular sea basin and an enviable position on the coast. The Council had aspirations for the site and together with Tees Valley Regeneration organised a masterplan competition which was to encourage use of the site for mixed occupation (education, employment and residential) the masterplan was also delivered by NORR.
AWARDS 2009 British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) Award for Best Practice in Regeneration
Middlesbrough College was to relocate to the site as a catalyst for further development and in 2006 NORR won the design competition for the college.
2009 RIBA LSC Education Design Excellence Award
The scheme design makes use of a new common 3 storey ‘street’ layout but differs in that this arrangment is not straight but connects the main network of routes surrounding the site and allows them to flow into the building so that the building embeds itself into the townscape. The street separates the larger spaces from the more standard class-bases and admin areas that face onto the dock basin.
2009 RICS North East Renaissance Regeneration Award
The new college hosts a range of facilities for the public and the pupils of the school including a six court sports hall, providing facilities for Netball, Tennis and Basketball. More adventurous activities such as Kayaking and Canoeing are also available. The College also has playing fields and all of the associated changing facilities. With 70 classrooms, six science laboratories, a theatre, gymnasium and fitness studio, hair and beauty salons, training kitchens, recording studios, a travel shop has a mix of academic and vocational training, including Foundation Studies, and is noted as a Centre of Vocational Excellence in Catering and Hospitality. It has an eclectic clientele of 14-19 year olds and beyond, who number approximately 5,000 in total in the new facility.
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CLIENT East Surrey College SCALE 18,000 m² new build 3,500 m² refurbishment VALUE £43 million COMPLETION 2010 BREEAM Very Good
EAST SURREY COLLEGE REDHILL, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION The £43 million development at East Surrey College in Redhill, involved the design of a new building and a major refurbishment of existing facilities on the College’s campus at Gatton Point North. The building includes facilities for students studying: art design and media, hair and beauty, construction, engineering, public service, health and childcare, sport, business and supported learning. It also houses a sports hall, a gym, a two-storey learning resource centre and landscaped horticulture and summer gardens. The design and specification of East Surrey College is a response to the needs of governors, managers, staff and students alike. The building is arranged around a three-storey, 800 m², internal winter garden, allowing natural light to fill the building which also connects to an external summer garden providing quality social space all year round. A number of sustainable features are incorporated into the design, including for example, rainwater harvesting. Additionally, a CHP (combined heat and power) system was employed in the form of a biomass boiler. The College has been awarded a BREEAM ‘Very Good’ rating. Other innovative features include the winter garden’s use of reflective panels to diffuse natural daylight into the internal space and solar heating and green roof systems employed on flat roofs, as well as a large roof garden. The College is designed to provide separation between greatly varying functions – from engineering rooms to TV studios, from motor vehicle workshops to beauty therapy relaxation rooms. The new build element of the projects includes a link which allows seamless incorporation of the original building (called the RSADM) to the rest of the College. The RSADM itself was completely refurbished including reinstating floor voids to provide additional teaching space.
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CLIENT University of Birmingham VALUE £2.78 million COMPLETION 2002
SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION Like many leading research establishments, the School of Chemical Engineering is anticipating and reacting to rapid changes in research and teaching programmes. The £2.78 million scheme provides the School with fully refurbished laboratory suites and new reception, administration and catering facilities, plus a ‘state of the science’ show laboratory. Services provided by NORR included strategic design planning, architecture, engineering and interior design. The project has not only improved the core functioning of the facility, but also significantly enhanced the experience of all those who use it.
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CLIENT Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) SCALE 7,800 m² VALUE £25 million COMPLETION 2004 AWARDS 2004 DX Design Effectiveness Award 2004 RIBA Worldwide Projects Award 2005 Toronto Architecture and Urban Design Award
SHARP CENTRE FOR DESIGN, OCAD TORONTO, CANADA FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION A distinctive cultural force in Ontario, OCAD’s impetus to expand came with a growing recognition at national level of the contribution of the creative industries to Canada’s modern economy. The award winning building symbolises our belief in the possibilities of education and the inherent strengths of community consultation and participation. OCAD is an instant landmark for a new emerging cultural quarter in Toronto and a point of pride for the local community. The project unifies the existing College buildings beneath a new two storey ‘table top’ structure. By creating a building elevated above the existing College the connection between an historic park to the west and McCaul Street to the east is maintained in a provocative and exciting manner, with a large, flexible teaching and studio spaces created within its simple expression. In addition to the teaching and administrative spaces the project also incorporates environmentally controlled gallery spaces, design and research centres, lounge and meeting rooms, specific craft and metalwork workshops and design critique spaces.
CLIENT University of Sheffield SCALE 1,100 m² VALUE £2.6 million COMPLETION 2010
STUDENTS’ UNION UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION NORR was commissioned by the University of Sheffield to undertake a design for an improved Student’s Union Building. The work comprised a £2.6 million project which refurbished an existing building complex ranging from the 1900s–1970s. The ground floor includes a full refurbishment featuring a new state of the art entrance area and reception, leading through to a primary retail and food core, offering a mix of shops, cafe bars and food outlets. The proposals also looked to integrate student activities at first floor level and provides clear circulation routes through what was previously a confusing amalgamation of dispirate buildings.
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CLIENT Staffordshire University COMPLETION 2005
LICHFIELD CENTRE, STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY LICHFIELD, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION A free-standing intervention, linked by landscape to an existing building, the project houses teaching arts and media centres dedicated specifically to education. The design is based around a glazed ‘street’ orientated on the axis of the three spires of the cathedral for which the city is famous and forms the orientation of the whole project. The street, which contains a ramp system for negating the need for lifts in the building, is colourised by surrounding uses – a café, cyber bar, gallery and display space, ‘break out’ areas – and is the activity hub of the complex. Top lit spaces house visual and performing arts workshops with a performance studio overlooking a cloistered garden.
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CLIENT Goldsmiths, University of London SCALE 3,600 m² VALUE £6.4 million COMPLETION 2005
BEN PIMLOTT BUILDING, GOLDSMITHS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, NEW CROSS, LONDON, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION Goldsmiths College has an international reputation as an incubator of British Art at a time when the UK leads contemporary art throughout the world. The college had undergone rapid expansion over the previous two decades and was in need of studio and teaching accommodation in order to retain its status. NORR was appointed after an open International competition in January 2002 to develop an overall vision for a New Arts Complex that would deliver much needed additional accommodation in a number of phases. The first phase delivers 3,600 m² of teaching and studio facilities for the Visual Arts Department as well as digital media laboratories and a major new research unit, called the Centre for Cognition, Culture and Computation. The new building has been designed as a robust seven storey box with an industrial aesthetic to reflect the rough and tough studio space within. Three sides of the box are clad in metal with punched windows for daylight and ventilation where required. The large north elevation of the building is entirely glazed to flood the building with natural daylight and to reveal the unique mix of studios, digital media laboratories and scientific research laboratories within. The use of a rational box for the bulk of the project is an attractive contrast to the playful use of a distinctive metal form which provides enhanced visual presence for the building.
CLIENT Yorkshire County Cricket Club / Leeds Metropolitan University SCALE 4,000 m² VALUE £20 million COMPLETION 2010 AWARDS 2010 Insider Property Industry Awards, Design Excellence Award BREEAM Excellent
CARNEGIE PAVILION HEADINGLEY, LEEDS, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION The Carnegie Pavilion is a unique ‘dual-use’ higher education and sports facility which is occupied all year round. It is at one and the same time: a university faculty expanding beyond the campus and embedding itself within the surrounding community, within a working sports ground; and sports facility housing applied higher education – a ‘new paradigm in learning’. Leeds Metropolitan University entered into a unique partnership with Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) to not only enable the delivery of the Carnegie Pavilion, but also to provide mutual benefits for both organisations, enhancing higher education, sport and the all round sustainability of the development. The Carnegie Pavilion accommodates the university’s School of Tourism, Hospitality and Events, where students benefit from direct exposure to real life sporting events and hospitality. The development incorporates a full-scale teaching kitchen as well as lecture theatres and faculty offices. Students of digital journalism are also be based in the building, and work hands on with the hi-tech facilities of the new media centre, designed to meet the latest standards for both TV and radio broadcasting. The dual-use 150 seat auditorium converts into a 100 seat press box for journalists, with uninterrupted views of the cricket action. The Carnegie Pavillion is an example of a genuinly sustainable building in that its co-occupation (over 70% of the rooms have been designed for ‘dual-use’) dramatically reduces its running costs, as well as its carbon footprint, when compared with two separate buildings. The project has achieved BREEAM ‘Excellent’ standard whilst complying with ECB cricketing requirements including its south facing glazed wall providing uninterrupted sightlines beneath a dramatic rood canopy. The triangular components which form this roof canopy add further visual impact to this very interesting project, creating an iconic landmark to one side, but also successfully manipulating the scale of this impressive project to it’s residential requirements on the opposite side.
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CLIENT Haymills SCALE 3,700 m² VALUE £8 million COMPLETION 2005
CRIPPS COURT, MAGDALENE COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION The development forms a self-contained annexe to the main Magdalene College site, and comprises en-suite rooms for up to 41 students along with associated social facilities, teaching spaces, IT facilities and a 140 seat auditorium. Two existing houses have been enhanced and integrated into the main frontage on Chesterton Road and this, along with the use of carefully chosen high quality materials, has resulted in buildings which are both modern and in sympathy with their surroundings.
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CLIENT University of Central Lancashire SCALE Capacity 1,000 VALUE £6.5 million COMPLETION 2007
53O STUDENT UNION CENTRE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE, PRESTON, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION The brief called for a new venue hall to be built on an existing car park adjacent to the existing 1970’s Students Union together with a complete reworking of the existing building to include the addition of retail units, new entrance, union services and a café area. NORR responded to this by providing a distinct yet homogenous group of linked buildings The venue is split into three parts. The largest has a capacity of over 1,000 with a wooden spring dance floor, a 15 metre stage and a mezzanine area. The Club area includes a stage, dance floor and DJ booth. The majority of the events at 53o are open to the public, as well as the vast student population. This enables the University to attract headline acts from the entertainment industry and encourages community use of its facilities.
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CLIENT South Thames College SCALE Capacity 1,000 VALUE £6.5 million COMPLETION 2007
SOUTH THAMES COLLEGE WANDSWORTH, LONDON, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION The redevelopment of the campus included the demolition of inadequate and poorly designed existing accommodation and the refurbishment of a Grade II listed building. The new facilities provide teaching accommodation for Music, Media and Performing Arts, Languages, Health and Social Sciences, 6th Form Centre, which other uses include a Sports Hall, separate Multi Purpose Hall, Fitness Gym, Learning Resource Centre and Cafe. The campus accommodates 5,000 full and part time students, and 200 staff. The design provides maximum openness for circulation spaces to enhance the sense of togetherness for staff and students as well as recognising the issues of security in an inner city campus. A new central courtyard provides a quiet sanctuary from the noise and disruption of the urban surroundings as the college is located on a major arterial route to central London. During Stage D the project’s procurement changed to Design & Build and NORR was retained by the College to provide assistance to the Employer’s Agent throughout the new build construction.
CLIENT University of Central Lancashire SCALE 10,000 m² VALUE £12 million COMPLETION 2008
MEDIA FACTORY UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE, PRESTON, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION NORR were appointed as part of a Design and Build team to develop a new multimillion pound project to help students and businesses drive forward the success of the North West’s creative sector. The project has been designed with the dual purpose of helping students nurture their creative talents, whilst also providing a base where fledgling local businesses can be incubated and grow. Part financed by European Regional Development Fund, the 10,000 m² centre gives students access to industry-standard performing arts and multimedia facilities. In addition, the North West’s entrepreneurial graduates and business community are able to tap into the opportunities offered via a dedicated business incubation centre. Based on the top floor of the building, the facility helps turn creative ideas into a commercial reality.
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CLIENT Langside College SCALE 14,070 m² VALUE £30 million COMPLETION 2011
LANGSIDE COLLEGE GLASGOW, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION The creation of Langside College’s Campus on Battlefield Road has allowed the Campus to open up onto one of the busiest streets on the South Side of Glasgow, and provided a much needed public entrance thus truly making it a ‘Community’ College. Distinctive high quality buildings have been placed around a central courtyard space which doubles up as a performance venue and public square. An irregular drama and music building perches on top of the existing hillside provides dynamic glimpses through the trees of this state of the art facility. The main teaching block is five storeys high and finished with terracotta rain-screen cladding and coloured Trespa panels whilst the drama and music building, clad in Kalzip aluminium sheeting and render, sits on top of the existing hillside, providing an obvious urban intervention, and a new entry point for visitors arriving to the campus.
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CLIENT Berkshire College of Agriculture SCALE 850 m²
BCA SCIENCE BUILDING MAIDENHEAD, UK PUBLIC BUILDINGS: EDUCATION
VALUE £2.8 million
Berkshire College of Agriculture is a regional college, offering land-based education and training. Its Campus is built around a Grade 1, listed mansion building and parkland within the green belt.
COMPLETION 2009
The Science Building is designed and constructed to best practice sustainable design, influenced by a number of design parameters and criteria. It is an L-shaped single-storey building, providing a variety of classroom sizes to maximise flexible teaching spaces for the College’s current and future needs.
BREEAM Very Good
The building features several natural materials, all of which are very durable, and all have low embodied energy in comparison to traditional alternatives, such as steel and aluminium. These materials form the structural frame, the majority of external cladding and all external doors and windows. Recycled newspaper was used to insulate the external walls and at least 25% of the aggregates used in the concrete floor slab were obtained from a local recycled source.
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CLIENT City of Bristol College SCALE 11,600 m² VALUE £23 million COMPLETION 2010
SOUTH BRISTOL SKILLS ACADEMY CITY OF BRISTOL COLLEGE, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION NORR designed this iconic, dynamic, yet highly functional building for City of Bristol College which forms a key landmark at the entrance to the new Hengrove Park development. The primary aim of the design for this building was to provide a dramatic learning environment both internally and externally, whilst keeping all the facilities together under one simple roof form. The new building accommodates facilities for up to 2,000 students featuring vocational training workshops,tailored for curriculum areas covering motor vehicles, hairdressing and beauty therapy, retail, construction trades, health and catering. General classrooms, ICT suites, staff working environments and the college administration facilities are also provided each linked by the drama of the entrance atrium and the central winter garden. All of this is contained within an attractive overall form with an excellent floor area to wall ratio delivering genuine value for money in a creative and interesting manner.
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CLIENT Bexhill College SCALE 6,000 m²
BEXHILL COLLEGE RELOCATION BEXHILL, EAST SUSSEX, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
VALUE £10.35 million
This academic facility provides 6,000 m² of teaching accommodation to serve Arts & Humanities, Business & Information Technology, Health, Recreational & Community Studies and Science & Mathematics.
COMPLETION 2004
Additional facilities include a sports hall, all weather pitch and refectory. The refectory is the social hub of the new college and serves as a flexible area for catering and social needs including large functions. The building design features a natural ventilation system and this was a significant factor in delivering the project below the LSC cost benchmark. The design totally integrates students with special needs previously from the Glyne Gap School and these facilities are located in a prominent position at the College entrance. NORR was appointed from RIBA Stage C to L.
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CLIENT Dundee College SCALE 23,000 m² VALUE £28 million COMPLETION 2011 BREEAM Very Good
GARDYNE CAMPUS REDEVELOPMENT DUNDEE COLLEGE, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATIONL In the summer of 2007 Dundee College took ownership of the former Northern College teacher training facility at Gardyne Road – a facility originally built in the 1970s. Since the late summer of 2006, NORR worked with the College to realise a dynamic new learning environment set within the original buildings – with the challenge to create a flexible and contemporary 21st century teaching facility with a diverse range of spaces clearly linked by a strong element and theme. The main feature of the building is a central three storey atrium space created within the footprint of the former assembly hall. This is connected to the main entrance by way of a timber ‘ribbon’ which wraps around the walls, ceiling and floor to draw users through into this impressive, multi functional space at the heart of the pan. The refurbishment of the Gardyne Campus provides the College with a wide variety of learning environments, some of which are certainly amongst the most innovative in the country.
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CLIENT University of Edinburgh SCALE 5,500 m²
CHRYSTAL MACMILLAN BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
VALUE ÂŁ10.5 million
NORR refurbished and extended this existing seven storey 1950s building within a key conservation area of Edinburgh, a recognised World Heritage site.
COMPLETION 2008
NORR worked closely with the building users and estates department to develop a brief whilst also initiating conversations with planning and the various heritage / conservation bodies in Edinburgh to create / reinstate a new landmark building on this historic square. The proposal created three floors of undergraduate teaching space and bookable meeting rooms and lecture theatres with associated admin and ancillary space. The larger spaces and particular uses required controlled environments and were heavily serviced. These floors were linked by a new lift and feature stair placed within a newbuild extension onto Middle Meadow walk. A further new build extension addressed arrival and entrance and faced the main campus in George Square, announcing the presence of this new intervention.
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CLIENT South Lanarkshire College SCALE 15,500 m² VALUE £23 million COMPLETION 2008
SOUTH LANARKSHIRE COLLEGE EAST KILBRIDE, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION South Lanarkshire College is built on a cleared site in Scottish Enterprise’s Technology Park in East Kilbride. The project rationalises three campuses into one single campus. The site is next to the main road through East Kilbride and has a commanding and visually prominent position. The accesses and site circulation presented perticular design challenges which have been resolved through the creation of a building which accommodates a high proportion of workshop space in a sympathetic manner.
CLIENT Sussex Coast College / Laing O’Rourke SCALE 27,000 m² VALUE £49 million COMPLETION 2010 BREEAM Very Good
SUSSEX COAST COLLEGE HASTINGS, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION NORR was appointed from RIBA Stage D with the D&B Contractor for the redevelopment of Hastings College of Arts & Technology, now known as Sussex Coast College, on two new sites at Station Plaza and Ore Valley in Hastings. The most striking feature of the six storey, 20,000 m² Station Plaza college building is its dramatic, light-filled atrium, around which are classrooms, coffee shops, a juice bar, restaurant, hair salon, design studio, retail outlets, and a spectacular circular art gallery. The new college also features state-of-the-art facilities for learning including a fitness suite, hydrotherapy unit, performing arts and dance studios as well as audio-visual and media facilities. The 7,000 m² Ore Valley campus is home to Construction, Engineering, Countryside Management and Business & ICT courses and provides a series of realistic work environments within its structure. The campus also enjoys cutting-edge digital technologies with the latest equipment and an all-weather sports pitch.
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CLIENT Southport College SCALE 2,500 m² VALUE £2 million COMPLETION 2002
SOUTHPORT COLLEGE LIBRARY AND LRC SOUTHPORT, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION The College’s requirement was to extend and modify the existing two-storey Library and Learning Resource Centre as part of a strategy of providing students with the latest facilities in information and learning technologies. The new building was also to provide for independent study and a student services department. The design therefor expresses an image to suit the new millennium and new technology. Careful planning was required and appropriate construction methods adopted to allow work to progress whilst the College was in occupation, causing the least possible disruption to the teaching programme. The Mornington Centre is the hub of learning at Southport College containing Student Services, a wellequipped library, modern learning centre and learn direct suite. Student Services exist to meet the needs of both potential students and current students. With a wide range of support available, the area is wellequipped and staffed by professional, dedicated staff.
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CLIENT John Moores University VALUE ÂŁ3 million COMPLETION 1998
SPORTS HALL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY, LIVERPOOL, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION The sports hall rebuilding was the first phase of the redevelopment of the south east end of the IM Marsh Campus for public use. The original building suffered up to 100 mm deflection in high winds which rendered the joints in the roofing sheets useless. Consequently the building was completed stripped down to the six primary steel arches which was the only element of the existing building retained, before installation of the new steel support system. Phase II of the sports hall included the installation of the new entrance. This entrance is bridged by a cafĂŠ area which has views of the sporting activities inside the hall and externally to the immediate surroundings. Changing rooms and an equipment store were added on the north west side of the building. A four metre high wall has been built around the whole of the playing area to provide a uniform vertical rebound surface for practice.
CLIENT Stoke-on-Trent College SCALE 4,200 m² VALUE £8 million COMPLETION 2009
CAULDON CAMPUS STOKE-ON-TRENT COLLEGE, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION At the Cauldon Campus, the new NORR designed building houses the Faculty of Care, which is a Centre of Vocational Excellence, in addition to departments of catering, hair and beauty and horticulture, together with the administrative and academic staff accommodation. The building re-orientates the campus towards a new main entrance and associated reception, student services and cafes. A public square fronting this entrance will connect to a newly developed urban link between the city centre and the academic quarter. The project is based around the college taking ownership of an adjacent Victorian park, a scheduled historic landscape, the form of which is transposed to shape the landscape of the redeveloped campus.
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CLIENT Southport College SCALE 2,500 m² VALUE £2 million COMPLETION 2002
BURSLEM CAMPUS STOKE-ON-TRENT COLLEGE, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION The School of Construction, Burslem Campus, is one of the UK’s leading training centres for construction crafts including plumbing, plastering, brickwork, wood occupations, painting and decorating, providing inspirational learning facilities that support the regeneration of the local area. Centralisation of construction based facilities at Burslem lead to the creation of a state of the art facility which accommodates the teaching of Plumbing, Joinery and Decorating. The £5 million centre also includes staff offices, a Learning Resource Centre and eight classrooms, making a new hub within the wider faculty buildings.
CLIENT Canterbury College SCALE Phase 1: 9,500 m² Phase 2: 12,000 m² VALUE £46.9 million COMPLETION 2007
CANTERBURY COLLEGE PHASES 1 & 2 CANTERBURY, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION NORR was appointed architect and design leader on ‘Campus 2007’, a two phase, two stage design and build £46.9 million campus re-development on the existing Canterbury College campus to provide state-of-the-art facilities for its staff and students. Phase 1 includes technology centre, motor vehicle workshop, animal care centre, post 16 centre, crèche and all supporting infrastructure. Phase 2 comprised five new buildings in a ‘street’ environment, featuring a forum / rotunda at the crossroads to represent the heart of the College. Accommodation includes a refectory / food court, student information centre, learning resource centre, CoVE for travel & tourism and facilities for performing arts & media studies, graphics & fine art, hair & beauty, floristry, dance studio, essential skills centre and administrative offices.
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CLIENT Clydebank College SCALE 17,500 m² VALUE £33 million COMPLETION 2007
CLYDEBANK COLLEGE GLASGOW, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION NORR was closely involved in the development of the wider site master-plan for the former John Brown shipyard, which had effectively cut off the town from the riverside. With the creation of new streets (routes) and public uses (public squares and community facilities) people are now drawn down into the site and facilities along the river edge. This ensures that they stay on the riverside, engaging with the new facilities there. Both entrances have large, overhanging, cantilevered canopies, which appear to ‘float’ above you as you enter the College. Their form alludes to the scale and visual presence of the great shapes of ships, and the cranes which built them, all of which so dominated the townscape in years gone by. The College has several new innovative forms of teaching space, such as the Training Restaurant and Hair and Beauty Salon, each of which fronts onto one of the new public squares. Open to the general public, these spaces allow students to learn in ‘real’ working environments. Overall the college now enjoys the benefits of a dynamic new visual presence, whether seen from the road, from the river or from the air.
CLIENT Connel Mott MacDonald SCALE 3,300 m² VALUE £6 million COMPLETION 2007
SOUTH BANKS ART CENTRE BEDFORD COLLEGE, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION As part of the redevelopment of Bedford College, NORR were appointed to carry out detailed design and production information services for a new three storey Arts Centre fronting St. Mary’s Gardens and the river, in the centre of Bedford. The building has been designed to take various constraints into account including the risk of flooding due to the proximity of the adjacent river whilst still being linked to the other existing College buildings. The Arts Centre has been designed to utilise modern materials with large areas of curtain walling and cedar cladding to assist the College in achieving its aspiration to provide an enhanced public image emphasising the College’s desire to modernise the Campus as a whole. Acoustically the building is very complex with a multi-purpose theatre, sound and TV recording studios, technical workshops and various other specialised areas. With the strict sound constraints being of paramount importance to the operation of each department a large number of floor and wall types were specified in order to meet the user’s requirements.
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CLIENT Milton Keynes University SCALE 1,804 m²
UNIVERSITY CENTRE MILTON KEYNES UNIVERSITY, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
VALUE £2.44 million
This refurbishment project has transformed a tired 1980s office building into a vibrant state of the art higher education facility, giving the client a flagship presence in Central Milton Keynes.
COMPLETION 2008
The building provides 1,804 m² of space for teaching in art and design, computing and teacher training as well as housing the College marketing team. The ground floor is open to the public with a coffee shop, exhibition space, library and a high tech information area. On the upper floors, an existing external lightwell has been turned into a double height gallery atrium space, whilst a glass floor lets light into the ground floor below. The project is a contemporary design solution for an adult learning environment and raises the client’s profile as a leading contender in the field of higher education in this important location.
CLIENT North Lanarkshire Council, Schools and Centres 21 SCALE 11,500 m² VALUE £20 million COMPLETION 2013
CHRYSTON HIGH SCHOOL CHRYSTON, GLASGOW, UK PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION Chryston High School was procured through North Lanarkshire Council’s Schools & Centres 21 Framework and completed in August 2012. The constraints of the site boundary and the position of the existing 1960’s school both helped to create the dynamic triangular form of this compact two storey building. This design strategy also ensures efficiency of space and pupil movement, in addition to lending the building a more convivial scale. Classroom spaces are simply arranged on all three sides of the central courtyard, offering good legibility, effective way-finding and frequent visual connections between inside and out. The main entrance area, social space and community facilities extend from the building’s triangular core to provide a welcoming form and attractive focal point for the school’s wider context, whilst the demolition of the existing school has facilitated a new and more appropriate setting for this important local building.
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CLIENT Willian Verry Ltd SCALE 2,400 m²
STUDENT CENTRE AND SPORTS HALL ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY, CHELMSFORD, UK FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
VALUE £5 million
NORR was appointed for a Design and Build project to construct a three storey Student Centre and Sports Hall for Anglia Ruskin University.
COMPLETION April 2005
The project forms part of a long-term master plan to regroup the University buildings at the Rivermead campus. The Student Centre of approximately 2,400 m² consists of café facilities and student bars at ground and first floor with standard office accommodation at second and third floors. There is extensive landscaping surrounding the projet and the building is naturally ventilated.
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