Oxford North has reached its highest point in construction and topped out its first phase with the Red Hall’s new cantilever roof lowered into place and two new lab buildings' steel frames completed.
The first three buildings, 0.8ha central park and market square for pop-up markets, food vendors, sports and cultural events programme, are due to be completed in Q2 2025.
The Red Hall, a landmark building, will provide prime office space at the heart of the new district as a new shared workspace for local occupiers. Over five floors, the Red Hall's ground floor will include a significant amount of amenities which will include a cafe-bar, event, meeting and community space, co-working spaces and retail units. The four upper floors will offer office space from 371m2 to accommodate a range of science and innovation start-ups and SMEs.
1 & 2 Fallaize Street will be two laboratory buildings for companies which range from SMEs looking to grow, to larger corporate occupiers which need a high-specification new workspace. Each building will total 5,453m2 NIA over four floors and a mezzanine to offer space to generate ideas, collaborate and innovate.
As a low-carbon district, the buildings will be all-electric and energy-efficient, powered by renewable sources and on-site photovoltaics, and will target BREEAM Excellent.
Oxford North Ventures is the joint venture company of Thomas White Oxford, the development company of St John’s College, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Stanhope.
Victoria Collett, development director, Thomas White Oxford said: “Generations of undergraduate and graduate students benefited from Professor Fallaize’s teaching and scholarship. She was proud of and deeply committed to the College, enthusiastically supporting her peers and students, and taking on many roles within both the College and University. Today we are proud that her spirit will live on at Oxford North.”
David Camp, chief executive officer, Stanhope said: “Our ‘topping out’ is a significant milestone for delivering Oxford’s new innovation district. Our thanks to the many people involved in reaching this moment. We are building a new sustainable district for Oxford, purposefully designed to enable the next century of life-changing discoveries in science and technology.”
Acting on behalf Oxford North Ventures are Fletcher Priest Architects, Gustafson Porter + Bowman, Townshend Landscape Architects, Buro Happold, Savills, Turner Townsend Alinea, Gardiner & Theobald, Hoare Lea, Stantec, AKT II, Contemporary Art Society Consultancy, Endpoint, Spacecraft Consulting and Storey Consulting.
Image provided by Spacecraft Consulting.
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