University of London

We have designed a number of buildings for Queen Mary, University of London, a Russell Group member with a highly regarded research programme and a prominent site in East London, albeit one which lacked a singular identity. WilkinsonEyre’s brief in repositioning the campus included a need for greater visibility in the wider cityscape.

Arts Two, completed for Queen Mary in 2010, accommodates the entire History Department and includes a timber-clad 300-seat auditorium and foyer, centrally bookable seminar rooms and a top floor senior common room.

The Mathematics Building (2011) creates a new foyer and social/study space for the School of Mathematical Sciences, establishing a strongly identifiable entrance to the campus on the Mile End Road in east London. It also includes the refurbishment of a lecture theatre to the highest environmental and acoustic standards.

The Queen Mary Graduate Centre (2015) provided a dedicated graduate centre for the college and contributed significantly to the urban improvements of the campus: a new landscaped quadrangle, courtyard, and a back-of-pavement café onto Bancroft Road provides extensive outdoor amenity space.

Also for the University of London, the City Law School in Clerkenwell (2021) is a skilful combination of new build and refurbishment forming a variety of study and learning spaces for this established provider of legal education, and includes a moot court, law library, study areas and academic offices. The form of the building mediates between the scale of the surrounding Georgian residential streets and the taller and more varied urban grain of Goswell Road.