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post updated 13 June 2022

Leicester Building News

Leicestershire Architecture News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

13 June 2022
Joules Market Harborough head office, The Barn, Rockingham Road, Market Harborough
Design: Edge

photo © Baileys Construction
Joules Market Harborough head office
Edge has completed a new head office for British lifestyle brand, Joules, in Market Harborough, where the brand was established more than 30 years ago. The development sees the partial demolition of an a-typical ‘edge of town’ office building and creation of a new 60,000 sq ft structure that brings the UK-based head office teams together under one roof for the first time, in a campus that amplifies the brand’s distinctive heritage and optimises the site’s semi-rural natural surroundings.

27 August 2021
Magna Park, Lutterworth
Design: Grant Associates

image courtesy landscape architects practice
Magna Park landscape, Lutterworth
Landscape architect Grant Associates is leading on the delivery of the ecological landscape design and environmental planning for Magna Park, Lutterworth, one of Europe’s largest distribution locations. The landscape design of the expanded 550 acre Leicestershire site will feature a clear focus on biodiversity, habitat enhancement and close integration and accessibility to the wider community.

15 Apr 2013
Leicester Market Food Hall Building
Design: Greig & Stephenson

image from architect office
Leicester Market Food Hall
Architects Greig & Stephenson have lodged a detailed planning application for a brand new food hall at Leicester Market as the first phase of an overall master plan to regenerate the Market Place area of Leicester city centre, said to be the largest market in Europe.

29 Jun 2012
Loughborough Design School, Loughborough
Design: Burwell Deakins Architects

photograph : Hufton+Crow
Loughborough Design School
This is a 7,920 square metre building comprising teaching spaces, research laboratories, workshops, computer suites, offices and cafe, and is located within the existing university campus. It is a deep plan building on a roughly triangular footprint.

Recent Leicester Building Designs

29 Mar 2012
Leicester Engineering Department Building Renovation
Design: Berman Guedes Stretton

picture : University of Leicester
Leicester Engineering Department – 14th Annual Industry Lecture at University of Leicester
Britain’s most iconic building of the mid 20th Century will be the subject of the 14th Annual Industry Lecture at the University of Leicester’s Department of Engineering. “Leicester’s Engineering Building: Architectural Dream – Engineering Nightmare?” is the title of the lecture to be delivered by Alan Berman from Berman Guedes Stretton Architects and Thomas Pearson from Arup.

NMT Building
Design: Associated Architects

picture : Associated Architects
NMT Building Leicester

Leicestershire Architecture

Key Leicestershire Building Projects, alphabetical:

Attenborough Tower, University of Leicester
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tallest working paternoster in the UK

Charles Wilson Building, University of Leicester
Date built: 1964
Design: Sir Denys Lasdun Architect

photos : Warren Jukes
Civic Trust Award 1969

Cineplex + John Lewis Store, Shires Retail Development, Leicester
Date built: 2005-
Design: Foreign Office Architects

Curve – Leicester Theatre & Performing Arts Centre
Design: Rafael Vinoly Architects

photo : Peter Cook/View
Curve Leicester

David Wilson Library, University of Leicester
Design: Associated Architects

photo © Martine Hamilton Knight
University of Leicester building

De Montfort University Library, Leicester
Design: Eva Jiricna Architects

photograph : Peter Cook
De Montfort University Library

ECB National Cricket Academy, Loughborough University
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David Morley Architects

Engineering Building, Leicester University
Dates built: 1959-63
Design: Stirling and Gowan: James Stirling, James Gowan and Frank Newby

Highcross Leicester – formerly The Shires Shopping Centre
Design: Foreign Office Architects

image from ArcelorMittal
Highcross Leicester

Leicester College Abbey Park Building
Design: Bond Bryan Architects

image from architect
Leicester College Building

Leicester Creative Business Depot – Lcb depot studios
Date built: 2005
Design: Ash Sakula Architects
For Leicester City Council
Bus depot conversion + new-build: 50 studios
Part of Will Alsop masterplan

Leicester University engineering laboratory
Date built: –
Design: Stirling & Gowan, Architects
This celebrated university building may be demolished
Grade II* listed building

Leicester University College Hall buildings
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Design: Leslie Martin & Trevor Dannatt

Leicester University College Hall Buildings Refurbishment
Date built: 2008-
Design: Conran & Partners, Architects, London
Residential development

River Soar Foot and Cycle Bridge
Design: Explorations Architecture with Buro Happold

image from architect
River Soar Bridge Competition : RIBA Competition