New Brookes building among award candidates
Winners of the Oxford Preservation Trust Awards will be announced tonight
Tonight, the Oxford Preservation Trust will announce the winners of its 2025 awards. The trust honours local projects for excellence in design, historic conservation, and sustainability.
The new Workshop Building on the Oxford Brookes Headington Hill campus has been shortlisted in the ‘new buildings’ category.
Construction on the Workshop Building started in 2023. It has been fully opened for this academic year, and already won another award.
“The workshop is the home to specialist engineering equipment with state-of-the-art labs and hands-on teaching spaces,” the university states on its website.
The Oxford Preservation Trust wrote that the building’s “gabled form echoes the other buildings in the historic setting, while the textured zinc cladding reflects the parkland setting and mitigates the impact of louvred ventilation hidden behind the façade.”
The ceremony for the 48th edition of the trust’s awards will take place at St John’s College. A total of 21 projects in six different categories have been nominated.