The first phase of Coventry’s newest secondary school opened in September for the start of the 2011-12 academic year.

Robothams worked with Sheppard Robson www.sheppardrobson.com to design the new campus in the city’s Hillfields district, the project continues its regeneration after the construction of the nearby City College. The new year will see completion of the second phase providing the school and community with a sports centre and external pitches.

Whilst the practice is busily delivering the current phase of development at Bromsgrove School we have been preparing designs for the next phase which includes two new boarding houses providing 100 study bedrooms.

To be built on the site of the listed former home of poet laureate A.E.Housman, the two new buildings have been designed to reflect the vernacular character of the site and its context.

The practice has recently received planning consent for a premium care home with 106 bedrooms in Coventry for Restful Homes.

The project is one of the practice’s largest schemes to date, and has been designed with both a progressive approach to communal facilities and a contemporary exterior. Our specialist team is also working with Restful Homes and Wildgoose Construction on care homes in Lichfield and Stratford Upon Avon, both of which are on site and due to deliver a total of 176 bedrooms in 2012.

Robothams working in partnership with Faithful & Gould, have submitted an application for student accommodation on the University’s campus.

The design includes, curved roofs and solar thermal panels, to achieve the Breeam Excellent design.

Appointed in 2010, the practice have been acting as compliance monitor for two major projects currently under construction in the city centre.

The Student Enterprise Building (site photo above) will be completed in Summer 2011 with the Engineer and Computing Building occupied in 2012. Our role includes
co-ordinating a team of specialist advisors for the University and reviewing detailed design information.

The practice have been appointed to design a new engineering building for North Warwickshire and Hinckley College at their Nuneaton Campus.

With funding from Warwickshire County Council, the scheme aims to provide a ‘hi-tech’ vocational environment for teaching 14-19 year old students. A workshop equipped with state of the art engineering equipment would be combined with CAD teaching rooms and a ‘board room’. Completion in anticipated for the start of the next academic year, in September 2011.

Robothams were appointed with partners, Faithful & Gould to design a scheme of over 500 student bedrooms on their Lakeside campus.

The new residences will need to achieve Breeam Excellent and sit within the University’s campus masterplan, it will also need address the rural character of the site and the earlier phases of student accommodation. Completion is anticipated for Summer 2012.

Robothams have been appointed to design the University’s new campus in London. The practice will provide lead consultant as well as interior design services for this exciting new base for MBA teaching in the capital. Teaching begins from the new centre in the autumn of 2010.

This commission follows the practices appointment onto the University’s framework for professional services over the next few years, a relationship the partner’s hope will yield a range of interesting projects. For more information visit: www.coventry.ac.uk/LondonCampus/Pages/LondonCampus.aspx

Today marks the first day of term for a generation of students who will benefit from the practice’s stunning design for North Leamington School.

Using a campus model the scheme creates a family of buildings that respond to the green belt location and the needs of students and staff. Underpinning our approach to the design was a commitment to environmental design and this been expressed in the Breeam Excellent rating achieved by the school.