Castle Meadow Campus | |
Map Type: | United Kingdom Nottinghamshire |
Altitude: | 300NaN0 |
Building Type: | University campus (former tax office) |
Structural System: | Concrete and brick |
Cost: | £54m. |
Address: | Nottingham, NG2 1AB |
Client: | Inland Revenue |
Owner: | University of Nottingham |
Coordinates: | 52.95°N -1.15°W |
Start Date: | 1992 |
Completion Date: | September 1994 |
Inauguration Date: | 19 May 1995 |
Floor Area: | 120,000 square feet (39,000 sq m) |
Architect: | Hopkins |
Architecture Firm: | Michael Hopkins and Partners |
Structural Engineer: | Arup Group |
Services Engineer: | Arup Group, Christian Bartenbach (lighting) |
Castle Meadow Campus is a distinctive and large series of buildings in the west of the centre of Nottingham, completed in 1994 and occupied by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) from its construction until 2021,[1] when it was purchased by the University of Nottingham.[2]
The campus comprises seven buildings with tree-lined boulevards. It is built on a former railway goods yard off the A453 off Castle Meadow Road, next to the Nottingham Canal.
The buildings were designed by Hopkins Architects with engineering by Arup Group.[3] The design employs natural ventilation. The main Amenity Building has a fabric roof suspended from four raking steel masts. The design employs the thermal mass of the concrete to cool the building at night. There are 1,052 pre-built deep brick piers with 863 concrete ceiling beams.
In May 2023 the buildings were listed at Grade II.[4]