The ‘Heart of the Campus’ development is set within the context of the University’s long-term-strategy for the site; to construct high-quality, carbon-neutral buildings that will further strengthen a coherent site plan. Set within a newly landscaped ‘plaza’ the ‘Heart of the Campus’ proposal is formed of two new buildings. 

‘The Pavilion’ is the new front door of the Clifton Campus featuring a full height glazed façade with a modular concrete vaulted canopy. It provides the students with spaces for collaborative learning and social interaction, teaching rooms and a mezzanine for informal gatherings. The adjoining 'teaching building' provides a variety of state-of-the-art teaching spaces accomodating more than 800 students within its three lecture theatres and flexible rooms - fully equipped with the latest audio visual technology and wireless connectivity.

The ‘Heart of the Campus’ development is set within the context of the University’s long-term-strategy for the site; to construct high-quality, carbon-neutral buildings that will further strengthen a coherent site plan. Set within a newly landscaped ‘plaza’ the ‘Heart of the Campus’ proposal is formed of two new buildings. 

‘The Pavilion’ is the new front door of the Clifton Campus featuring a full height glazed façade with a modular concrete vaulted canopy. It provides the students with spaces for collaborative learning and social interaction, teaching rooms and a mezzanine for informal gatherings. The adjoining 'Teaching Building' provides a variety of state-of-the-art teaching spaces accomodating more than 800 students within its three lecture theatres and flexible rooms - fully equipped with the latest audio visual technology and wireless connectivity.

Brackenhurst is an £8.4m new build Reception and Environment Centre for Nottingham Trent University that sits within the listed historic context of Brackenhurst Main Hall . The scheme comprises reception area, teaching and lecture spaces, laboratories and a new café space and was designed in conjunction with a Wolfgang Buttress, who has designed a sculptural installation for the campus. The building is designed with low-carbon materials including CLT panels and has achieved BREEAM Excellent at design stage. Natural light plays a large role in the design, through the large roof lights and shuttered windows.

This project involved designing an extension for Nottingham Trent Students’ Union - providing new space for student membership use and improved office space for staff.

The new ground floor spaces includes an entrance foyer, a double-height membership space and student meeting room. The brief was to provide students and society groups with a space to gather and socialise, while being visible to visitors and students arriving at the campus.

Further improvements to the ground floor included a reconfiguration of the stairwell and the introduction of a lift, providing inclusive access to the new spaces at first floor.

Refurbishment at first floor included a thorough refurbishment of the existing office areas, expanding the current office space and creating new staff and member meeting rooms. The open-plan arrangement and internal glazed partitions which overlook the membership space provide a naturally well-lit environment for the Students’ Union staff members to operate within.

A walkway within the double height membership space provides the circulation, connecting the offices to the newly refurbished student areas at first floor. This new space provides a more casual environment for student social interaction and links to a mezzanine which sits above the newly refurbished bar.

This listed building, one of Britain's first purpose built art schools, was completed in 1865 and extended in 1951. We were employed to undertake a £1.4m refurbishment to upgrade the facilities. Glass interventions that contrast with the heavy historic stonework are distributed around the complex signifying a new era in the school's history. 

'It has been your expertise and flair that has brought this building back to life. The building is light where it was once dark, inviting instead of daunting and accessible where previously it was not'
Dean Throop Project Manager, Nottingham Trent University

The Head Teacher at Renishaw described the Foundation Unit project as 'the final piece in the jigsaw' for the school replacing the remote and deteriorating original building. The new Foundation Unit project was commissioned in 2008 to construct a new up-to-date facility that brought the foundation unit classes closer to the rest of the school community.

Design workshops with the pupils and close consultation with the School and local authority led to a design that linked strongly with built and natural surroundings using scale and colour to define and the spaces and give them sense of fun.

A purpose-built teaching and learning facility to work alongside the Bennerley Business and Enterprise College to promote and encourage student enterprise. The brief included a flexible teaching room, office/ancillary space and radio station studios to house Erewash Sound. These areas are split into 3 blocks of differing identities, linked by a distinctive saw-toothed roof profile. 

The new building reads differently to the existing school buildings - giving it a more contemporary. vibrant and fresh feel that will act as a beacon for the College's development and improvement.

    “Evans Vettori have an outstanding knowledge of SEN school design earned through their vast experience and intrepid approach which helps them understand a schools’ brief and enables them to interpret this into an architectural form very quickly. By using simple sketches and models which assists stakeholders to understand the design more readily, Evans Vettori enabled a much smoother consultation process, clearly listening, understanding and resolving any issues through a conscientious design approach.”

Ted Lee Design Manager, Carillion

    “Provision for pupils with special needs is integral to the BSF programme and Oak Field School is a shining example of our desire to provide first class facilities for all.”

Tim Byles - Chief Executive of Partnerships for Schools

    “The opening of the new Oak Field School building is part of the educational journey which strives to provide the very best for all children. It shows very clearly that we, as a community of Nottingham, want the very best for our most vulnerable pupils.”

David S Stewart OBE, D.Litt.h.c. - Headteacher of Oak Field School

    ‘The new school is unique in its design and the builders and architects have produced a superb purpose-built school specifically planned to meet the needs of pupils with autism. I am very pleased with the final outcome and we have an exciting environment which is a place of safety as well as challenge.’ 

Andy Sloan – Head, Rosehill School

The University of Leeds student hub is a 4,000m2 Passivhaus building incorporating innovative teaching spaces, quiet study, learning spaces, a café, maker space, functional outdoor areas and landscaping scheme.

Our scheme looks to strength the identity of the western campus introducing a new city-facing Southern Gateway to the university. Taking inspiration from the historic context of the of the Western Campus an abstracted pattern was developed, seen throughout the scheme’s imagery, inspired by the Gothic Revival windows that overlook the courtyard. Context plays a large role in this scheme, influencing the environmental and structural strategy, with scope to develop the detail design, and create a highly distinctive and site-specific statement building in the heart of the campus.

Evans Vettori Architects with Re-form Landscape Architecture were shortlisted by the University as part of an international design competition, organised by the RIBA.