Stanton Williams hands over Emmanuel College additions (2024)

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Stanton Williams has taken the wraps off its £21 million part re-use, part new-build project at Emmanuel College, Cambridge

The 5,770m² Young’s Court scheme is the 400-year-old college’s most significant development in more than a century, creating a new social hub/café, teaching spaces and 50 student bedrooms. The practice, which won the 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize for its Sainsbury Laboratory half a mile away, has also delivered a college bar and events space within a repurposed service wing.

The project sits on land previously used mainly for car parking at the southern perimeter of the college in Park Terrace. It was bought for the expansion project along with the neighbouring Grade II-listed Furness Lodge, a former Catholic schoolhouse.

The practice’s scheme combines new build and refurbishment and is based around landscaped courts. New College Court provides 50 additional student rooms enabling the college to meet its ambition to accommodate all undergraduate students onsite. The teaching facilities are at Furness Lodge.

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According to Stanton Williams, the development is ‘intricately embedded’ into the existing network of collegial spaces and has created ‘intimate courtyards and gardens’, linked by landscaped courts and passageways.

The practice said: ‘The new buildings are conceived as a dialogue between old and new, knitting together existing spaces and adding a new layer to the historic evolution of Emmanuel’s 400-year-old collegiate setting.’

The design team included Bradley-Hole Schoenaich Landscape Architects and the project also features newly commissioned, site-specific artworks by Lucy Skaer, Cardozo Kindersley Workshop and Susanna Heron.

Emmanuel College occupies extensive grounds in the Cambridge Central Conservation Area, with a range of buildings dating back to Medieval times. The campus is characterised by a series of interlinked formal and informal courts and landscaped spaces, providing a sheltered environment in the heart of the city.

Stanton Williams was given the thumbs-up for its new communal space at the college in 2020.

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Client’s view

This project is transformational. It is on a scale not undertaken by the college since the completion of North Court in 1914 and provides new opportunities for us to meet needs that we have been unable properly to address for many years.
Mike Gross, bursar, Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Project data

Completion date 2023
Client Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Architect Stanton Williams
Construction cost £21 million
Gross internal floor area 7,800m²
Landscape architect Bradley-Hole Schoenaich Landscape Architects
Structural and civil engineer Smith and Wallwork
M&E engineer Skelly & Couch
Project manager Bidwells
Heritage consultant Caroe Architecture
Construction cost consultant Faith + Gould
Planning consultant Bidwells Planning
CDM principal designer Stace
Aboricultural consultant Haydens Aboricultural
Ecological consultant MKA Ecology

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