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Investcorp Building wins World Architecture Award

Following its recent awards from the Oxford Preservation Trust, RIBA South and RIBA National Award 2016 the Investcorp Building, Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, Oxford University has received a World Architecture Award.

Since 2006 and for over 20 Cycles, the World Architecture Community has organised the acclaimed WA Awards. The awards highlight and recognise remarkable projects that have the potential to inspire exciting questions about contemporary architectural discourse.

Integrating new academic and research facilities within a design defined by the existing built and natural environment of the college, the Investcorp Building maintains the detached character of the college’s existing buildings, allowing them to be read as separate elements. The design weaves through the restricted site at St Antony’s College while its stainless steel façade softly reflects natural light to echo the building’s context.

The curved form of the library reading room’s western façade accommodates the century-old Sequoia tree and its extensive root network with a drainage system below the foundation slabs to ensure the tree receives enough moisture.

The new Investcorp Building connects disparate buildings within the college, defining a series of spaces for the centre’s renowned archive, library and seminar programmes; allowing the Middle East Centre to expand its commitment as a vital forum of research and debate.

(Above image by Luke Hayes)

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