Cranmer Road, King's College

by Allies and Morrison 

Client King’s College Cambridge 

Awards RIBA East Award  2023

The site for this new graduate accommodation scheme for the University of Cambridge is in a designated conservation area that was developed in the late 19th century. It is characterised by generously proportioned and finely detailed red brick Edwardian and Arts and Crafts villas standing in large gardens with occasional larger college and university buildings. The client, King’s College, asked the architect to develop a site between and behind a group of villas that it owned. The architects have responded with a pair of buildings: a modern red brick villa on the street, and a long, two-storey pavilion in the combined gardens that represents a completely new building type for the area. 

Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal.

 Contractor RG Carter 

 Structural Engineer Smith & Wallwork 

 Environmental / M&E Engineer Max Fordam LLP 

Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant Faithful + Gould 

Passivhaus designer Warm 

Passivhaus certifier Warm 

Landscape Architect LDA Design 

Acoustic Engineer Max Fordham LLP 

Project Management King’s College 

Project Management Faithful + Gould 

Gross Internal area in m2 1783.6