As part of a development framework for Leeds Metropolitan University, Sheppard Robson has designed the ‘Rose Bowl’ – a new business school for the University on a site adjacent to the Grade II listed Civic Hall and Millennium Square. The 12,000m² scheme comprises teaching spaces, lecture theatres, offices, a restaurant and retail outlets and is located on an existing car park.

The Multi Sports Hall is the first phase of Sheppard Robson’s anticipated three phase development for Cranfield University Sports Centre. The future phases will include a Multi Sports Centre, and a swimming pool. The maximum population for the proposed facility will be at graduation ceremonies where the highest attendance, currently 1200, is expected to rise to 1500 in future.

Sheppard Robson has designed an innovative two-storey ‘Active Learning Lab’ as the striking centrepiece to the redevelopment of the Department of Engineering at the University of Liverpool. The scheme provides the department with up-to-date facilities through the refurbishment of four existing buildings, creating a new entrance foyer and courtyard to act as the hub of the department.

The Vincent Building of Cranfield University forms part of a campus reconciliation process, comprising a number of projects. The Building is the conversion of the north-east corner of the existing hanger, previously used as the University Sports Hall, together with a new building, separated from the hanger by an atrium, to provide new teaching facilities including primary and secondary laboratories and office accommodation for the University.

The University of Bristol’s Mathematics Department is currently spread over nine disparate buildings. Sheppard Robson’s winning design brings together these departments in a single iconic building that complements the University’s vision of creating a world-class mathematics facility which will attract a rapidly growing number of international academics and students.

The new 17,000m² Sheppard Robson designed Alan Turing Building at the University of Manchester has brought three schools of learning together, not previously taught in the same building; mathematics, photon science and astronomy. The Building’s frontage enlivens the streetscape through the extensive use of glazing. Central to the design are three sliding ‘fingers’ which horizontally ‘push and pull’ to create dynamic cantilevered projections, articulating the elevations.

The Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies is a major new facility for the University of Cambridge. The Centre provides resources for biological anthropological research and archaeological research into human evolution and variety. The Centre also houses the unique Duckworth Collection of non-human primates and human skeletal remains – the fourth largest in the world.

Sheppard Robson won an international design competition to develop world-class facilities for the London Business School within their main campus at Sussex Place. The winning submission proposed to develop the space between the two existing buildings (the Grade I listed John Nash terrace that fronts onto Regent’s Park and the Plowden building on Park Road) to create one School.

The Sheppard Robson designed Small Animal Teaching Hospital in Liverpool provides a modern veterinary teaching and referral hospital on a greenbelt site, adjacent to the faculty’s equine and farm animal hospitals. The concept employs sustainable solutions to blend with the local environment and provide a focus to the otherwise architecturally disparate site. The building, one of the most advanced animal veterinary facilities in the UK, received a 2008 RIBA award.

Sheppard Robson is designing the new £6.5 million facility at Lancaster University. The building will house major new performance spaces for the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) and the institutes research and postgraduate centres – comprising multifunctional areas for creative arts including music, drama, design and fine art alongside an interdisciplinary creative workshop facility. It will also be home to Imagination at Lancaster, an exploratory design research lab.

The new Medical Sciences Teaching Centre (MSTC) accommodates the Pre Clinical School of the Division of Medicine at the University of Oxford. The 3,000m² centre provides medical teaching laboratories, seminar rooms, offices, a computer suite, 225-seat lecture theatre and workshops - a progressive change in research design, breaking down departmental boundaries and encouraging a common approach to teaching by sharing laboratory space.

The relocation of Whitelands College, housing the schools of Life Sciences, Sport Sciences, Psychology and Therapeutic Studies, is the final element of Sheppard Robson’s masterplan for Roehampton University. The new 14 acre site is designed around an existing 18th century Grade I listed building, Parkstead House, which has been vacant for the past decade.

Design proposal for the refurbishment of the New Bodleian Library. Shepley Bulfinch/Sheppard Robson proposed to work in collaboration with Oxford University to design and implement the realisation of a new centre for scholarship, transforming and revitalising the New Bodleian from a primarily collection storage facility to a twenty-first century library focused on the interaction of scholars with the treasured materials stored within.

Phase 5 of the masterplan for Brunel’s Uxbridge campus comprises seven new blocks providing 543 student en-suite study bedrooms and a new Arts Centre. The layout of the residences is defined by the tree-lined course of the river Pinn to the east, and private housing to the north. This acts to form a new pedestrian access route running north to south, connecting to the main pedestrian route of the campus.

The proposed site for the Engineering and Computing Building is slightly de-centralised and will be built on a former hospital site next to the realitively new library. We understand that the building should ideally be contained under ‘one’ roof although we may wish to explore the possibility of clusters.

InQbate at the University of Sussex combines flexible spatial design with embedded multimedia technologies to allow a wealth of learning possibilities. The space can be partitioned, sub-divided and reconfigured in a multiplicity of ways to meet a wide range of educational and performance requirements. It seeks to revolutionise teaching and learning by blurring the boundaries between disciplines, between formal and informal learning, and between learning and creative practice.

Sheppard Robson was the eventual winner of a limited competition among twenty architectural practices to design Churchill College Cambridge in 1958. The client's requirement was for 60 fellows and 540 students, a high number for a Cambridge college.

The university takes its name from the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The parkland site of the new university between Hillingdon Village and Uxbridge was situated between Slough, Watford and Acton in the largest industrial conurbation south of the Midlands.

Sheppard Robson was appointed in 1957 to prepare an overall plan for the university's expansion. The existing buildings were scattered over the site with other accommodation dispersed throughout the town.

The most recent phase of the University’s Master-plan was completed in Aug 2008, delivering approximately 1,400 student study bedrooms in 17 four-five storey spine blocks, as predominantly 10 person flats. All the flats have large kitchen / dining rooms and bike stores and laundries are also provided in the development.

The Byre is a series of C19th cow sheds attached to the farmhouse set in the former market garden of Oakhill College. The agricultural buildings were converted into student residential accommodation in the 1980s. Sheppard Robson was appointed in 2005 to design new student residential accommodation to replace the existing buildings attached to the farmhouse. This included houses for students with family and a small community centre with crèche facilities.

Oak Hill is an Anglican Theological College, occupying a Grade II listed Georgian house with various 20th century additions in extensive parkland grounds. 

Sheppard Robson were appointed in 1997 to prepare a ten year master plan for the College. This included recommendations for improved facilities, which led to the development of the Academic Centre - a purpose-built library and study facility that replaced those formerly located in the main house.

The brief for the new Southlands facility was to create a sense of place; an environment to stimulate the teaching process, learning and social interaction and a vibrant community for the students.

The design drew on these objectives by using the familiar, historical, collegiate precedents where the academic, residential, social and religious accommodation are grouped around a central focus.

Sheppard Robson was appointed to design the University of Leeds’ new city centre student accommodation to planning approval. The project will see the existing Mary Ogilvie student residential complex redesigned, enabling more students to live in the city centre, and relieving pressure on the over populated Headingley campus.