
Northumbria University Architecture Building
Key Facts
Client
University of Northumbria
Location
Sutherland Building, Northumberland Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Value
£4,800,000
Internal Floor Area
2768m2
Completion
January 2019
A vertical accentuation of brick piers and chimneys
Project Info
Echoing the vertical composition and scale of its neighbours the proposal transforms a once indeterminate space by defining a new intimate urban courtyard. The articulated brick façade embeds it in its context while its canting form draws attention to the public entrance. Within a spine connects the Built Environment areas concentrated in the grand rooms to the new architecture studios where the urbane world outside it studied, reworked and re-imagined.






Testimonial
“Page\Park Architects have produced an intelligent and sensitive scheme, knitting together the existing, historic Sutherland Building, with innovative, light-filled, flexible and stimulating studio spaces that will ensure the very highest student experience for our students for years to come.”
Professor Ruth Dalton Head of Department for Architecture and Built Environment
“Within a few days of opening the students were using the space exactly as intended, producing high quality coursework in a stimulating environment.”
Mike Cookson Project Officer, Campus Planning & Development