University of Northampton’s Waterside campus open for business
The transformation is virtually complete – three years of construction and six years of continuous LUC involvement and the University of Northampton’s new Waterside Campus is open for business.
The £330m project has transformed 25 hectares of contaminated riverside from derelict factories and power station into the University’s new flagship Waterside Campus of new academic and residential buildings, Energy Centre, the restoration of listed railway buildings and two new major river crossings.
All are framed within LUC’s landscape masterplan and extensive ecologically inspired public realm to create a series of major new spaces and connecting routes which both celebrate the site’s scale and the 15,000 students and staff who will use it. Early indications show that staff love their new environment. We hope the students feel likewise when they arrive in September.
Nice walk back into work @UniNorthants #HelloWaterside pic.twitter.com/P8HH7ysQc3— Saul Cuttell (@SaulCuttell) 10 August 2018
Super-stoked about the new #HelloWaterside campus @UniNorthants Some more views from today in the sun with @johntieday doing a tour. pic.twitter.com/Xe8HEuSsvX— Rob Lyon (@Psychops) 6 August 2018
Richard Hannay, LUC’s Director of Landscape Architecture and project director for Waterside said: “I’m proud that we have succeeded in creating a new campus with an immediate and distinctive sense of place out of the most unpromising of sites and challenging of design and construction environments. It’s testament to the right design strategy, good working relationships and loads of stamina that we have exceeded expectations”.
