Scheme is practice鈥檚 fourth for City University

Associated Architects has been given planning for its fourth major project for Birmingham City University.

Its latest scheme will involve adding a 10,000sq m extension to the university鈥檚 campus in the Eastside area of the city. The 拢34 million building will be an extension to the 拢63 million Curzon 黑洞社区, which was also designed by Associated Architects.

It will be divided into two sections of two and six storeys and will provide a variety of formal and informal teaching and learning spaces for 3,000 students.

The university is spending 拢260 million updating its city centre campus which includes a new 拢46 million home for its Birmingham Conservatoire, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and set to open in 2017.

The music school is moving to a new home at Millennium Point after being relocated from Paradise Circus which is undergoing a 拢500 million redevelopment masterminded by Glenn Howells.

 

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