Gateway Buildings, St. Antony's College, Oxford, UK



Architect
Bennetts Associates
Date Built
2013
Location
Woodstock Road
Description
The architects of the Gateway Buildings describe them as, "... a significant addition to St Antony’s estate, defining a new presence for the college on one of the main routes serving the city centre." Professor Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony’s College says that, "... We are delighted with the design and the quality of the finished product and are sure that the Gateway Buildings will greatly aid us in what is becoming an increasingly competitive global market for post-graduate education.”

The development involves a new main entrance, Porters’ Lodge, 54 en-suite study bedrooms, offices for college staff and meeting/work space within glazed rooftop pavilions.  Bennetts' website explains that, "...
The Gateway Buildings are highly sustainable and include a range of features from passive design principles such as sensible glazing ratios, natural ventilation and planted roofs to renewables systems such as ground source heat pumps fed from pipework under the lawned quadrangle and solar arrays for hot water production – the main energy demand in student residences."