by WilkinsonEyre

Arts Two, Queen Mary, University of London

This humanities building for Queen Mary, University of London – one of the top 15 research universities in the UK – forms part of the institution’s ongoing development programme and provides a new public face for the campus on the Mile End Road.

The building accommodates the entire History Department and other faculty resources including a timber-clad 300-seat auditorium and foyer, centrally-bookable seminar rooms and a top floor senior common room. A 60-seat film and drama studio, licensed for public performances, projects over the pavement and is clad in glass panels with a digitally printed artwork by the artist Jacqueline Poncelet. A glazed corridor with external brise-soleil acts as a buffer zone to the first and second floors, sheltering the academic office space from the busy Mile End Road outside, such that they are all naturally ventilated and look out onto an internal courtyard. The building has 10% on-site renewable energy via ground source heat pumps and has a BREEAM 2006 rating of Very Good.

DetailsLocation: London, UK Client: Queen Mary, University of London Architect: WilkinsonEyre Structural Engineer: Arup Mechanical & Electrical Engineer: DSSR Area: 4,000m²Value: £21mDate: Completed 2012BREEAM rating: Very Good