The World Architecture Festival Awards has shortlisted the Lower Mountjoy Teaching and Learning Centre at Durham University in the Higher Education and Research category.

LUC provided landscape design services for the new Lower Mountjoy Teaching and Learning Centre. The project required careful consideration of local context in relation to the World Heritage Site. LUC’s visibility studies explored the relationship between the site and the proposed 8,000m2 building’s roofscape with that of the cathedral and the immediate local context.

At ground level, our public realm provides an important extension to the Lower Mountjoy Campus. We provided an impressive public space to this gateway development.

We used best-practice methods and new thinking to create an external space that is attractive, safe, sustainable, and climate change adaptive. The environment reinforces Durham’s special sense of place, alongside providing contemporary and highly popular external spaces.

See the full World Architecture Festival Award shortlist here.