A new building for art, design and media students on the Hendon campus
Many Middlesex students will be aware of the new buildings and improvements that are happening on the University’s Hendon campus. The most recent new Hendon building, Hatchcroft, has been in use by students in the School of Health and Social Sciences for a year now. Middlesex is now pleased to announce to our students that the next phase of building on the Hendon campus has begun.
A brand new building for art, design and media students is now under construction at the back of the campus. The building work will take two years, and so it will open its doors to students in 2011, in time for the beginning of the academic year 2011-12.
This exciting new building, the design of which has been described by the Greater London Authority as ‘world class design’ has been designed by bpr Architects. It is the same firm of architects that designed other buildings on the Hendon campus, namely the Sheppard Library, Hatchcroft and the glazed Quadrangle.
The new building – for which the University is using the working title ‘the art, design and media building’ – will provide teaching, learning and research facilities for some 1,600 art, design and media students. These students are currently being taught on the University’s Cat Hill and Trent Park campuses. In 2011 when the art, design and media building in Hendon opens, the Cat Hill campus will close. This means that some students currently based at Cat Hill will move campus during their time at Middlesex. However, even when the new Hendon building opens, the Trent Park campus will remain open and thriving, continuing to provide degrees in education, humanities and performing arts.
This computer generated image shows us what the new building will look like. It will vary in height between two and five storeys at different points with a glazed atrium, providing an overall floor space of 15,460 square metres. Inside students and academics will work in specialist teaching facilities, including art and design studios, digital media labs, workshops, photographic studios and darkrooms and TV studios as well as the more conventional seminar and teaching rooms, exhibition areas and a cafeteria.
At the same time as the construction project is underway, Middlesex will also fund major improvements to the setting and quality of the open space and parkland that is next to the art, design and media building in Hendon.
Overall Middlesex University will spend around £80 million on this project.
At the time when the diggers moved in to the building site, the University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Driscoll commented: “Development of our Hendon campus is moving at a fast rate and construction of this new art, design and media building is the most significant move in our long-term plan to consolidate teaching and research at Hendon. Not only will it be Middlesex’s most modern building, but it has been designed so that students will have the space they need to work, think and create. And consolidating onto one campus in Hendon means that students from all sorts of different disciplines can meet, exchange ideas and work together in a way that they haven’t been able to before. I can’t wait to see our students using the new building and its high-tech facilities”.
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