Queen’s Business School featured in Architects’ Journal

We are thrilled to have secured an exclusive ‘First Look’ for the new Queen’s Business School building in Architects’ Journal on behalf of our client, TODD Architects.

Queen’s Business School is located within the Queen’s University’s Riddel Hall campus on the Stranmillis Road, Belfast, where the Grade II listed red brick building sits at the heart of a 13 acre estate, surrounded by mature woodland. TODD Architects’ design response carefully knits the building into its sensitive landscaped setting and seeks to ensure a connectivity for its users with the surrounding mature woodland.

The external palette of materials is consciously restrained, combining red clay brick, bronze framed aluminium, floor-to-ceiling glazed screens and red cast stone, the latter used principally to delineate entrance colonnades at the upper and lower entrances.

Internally within circulation spaces, exposed concrete soffits with floating ceiling rafts, board marked concrete walls, timber wall sheeting and terrazzo tiled floors, combine to create a calm, robust, and understated aesthetic.

The building has been described as marking a new chapter for sustainable energy in Northern Ireland and a national geothermal energy flagship.

You can read the full story in Architects’ Journal HERE