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City Campus’ Law Department, by Wright & Wright
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Law Department for London Metropolitan University containing a 177-seat lecture hall, 13 seminar rooms, two IT suites, a mock court, 25 staff offices and a common room
Fitting roughly within the profile of the old swimming baths in order to avoid overshadowing the adjacent Herbert House, the addition is mostly of three storeys. It rises up to five floors at the southern end to hide the exposed side of the main university building, Calcutta House, a converted tea warehouse also of red brick.
The long double-height atrium, suggested by the mostly blank facade that faces the housing, was the key architectural driver internally; known as the ‘common room’ by staff and students, it is the space to which subsidiary rooms are orientated.
All seminar rooms connect to this main space: those on the ground floor are entered directly from the common room, with an overlooking walkway providing access to those on the upper floor.
Data
- Begun: Sep 2001
- Completed: Aug 2002
- Floor area: 4,425m2
- Sector: Education
- Total cost: £7.2M
- Tender date: Mar 2001
- Procurement: JCT 98 Private Edition with Quantities
- Address: Law Department, London Metropolitan University, 31 Jewry Street, London, EC3N 2EY, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Wright & Wright
- Client: London Metropolitan University
- Cost consultant: Davis Langdon
- Project manager: Citex
- Main contractor: Willmott Dixon
- M&E engineer: Arup
- Structural engineer: Arup
Suppliers
- Facing brick: Ibstock Brick Ltd
- Blockwork: Tarmac
- Joinery: Howard Brothers
- Rooflights: Vitral
- Windows: Wistleigh
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