This is a recently completed project which we delivered for Newcastle College which has been well recieved by students. The building is a new Lifestyle Academy which is basically an environment for a mix of learning spaces that are focused on health and beauty.
The brief asked for a building with attitude and style, a building that was robust and could take the knocks over time. Included within the building we have a rooftop restaurant with great views towards the angel of the north sculpture, a spa complex, a hairdressing salon, a nail bar, various gyms and much more. The building places a lot of public functions on the roof to enjoy the views and thus allows for a more solid and monolithic base to accomodate the more private type treatment rooms and specialist spaces. The result is an architecture that is sculptural and unusal.
The building also looks great both day and night and a good complement to the more extrovert building we also did for the College opposite, which is a Music and Performing Arts faculty.
My colleague Adrian Boot delivered the project for Newcastle College who are about the best client you could possibly ever work for. The building also secured an RIBA award.
