Key facts:

Client: St Antonys College Estates Ltd

Consultant: Max Fordham LLP

Main contractor: Bam Construction Ltd

Value: £ 1.5 Million

A modern, metallic cladded building designed by Zaha Hadid Architects has been created to link two traditional buildings within St Antony’s Oxford campus. The building provides a tailored environment for Middle Eastern studies.

The building includes three archive rooms for historic Middle Eastern literature, archive offices, reading rooms, Café and a basement auditorium. A four story spiral staircase sits at the centre of the building highlighting the mixture of high quality sleek concrete, timber and white plaster finishes.