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ST CROSS TOPPING OUT

JANUARY 2016

On the 15^th of January to celebrate the West Quad building reaching its highest point, the College held a ‘topping out’ ceremony.  The new Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, Professor Richardson marked the occasion by filling cement on the building’s rooftop. Professor Richardson, remarked on the use of ‘creativity in such a constrained space and sensitivity to the surroundings’.

JACOB’S LADDER ARTICLE

MARCH 2015

Jacob’s Ladder, the first stand-alone house built by this practice has been put on the market fifteen years after it was built. In a special article in the Sunday Times Property Supplement it was described by Kevin McCloud as “The only house in the whole country that takes my breath away… This is how 21st-century rural houses should be designed,”