New Hall Homerton College, Cambridge by Feilden Fowles.
London architecture studio Feilden Fowles has completed a timber-framed dining hall at the University of Cambridge's Homerton College with a faience-tiled volume set above a pigmented-concrete colonnade.
Designed to reference the adjacent arts and crafts-style Ibberson Building and the college's Victorian Gothic Revival buildings, the dining hall contains the main eating space along with a smaller room for eating called a buttery, kitchens and staff amenities.
The London-based studio, led by Fergus Feilden and Edmund Fowles, designed the building to replace the previous dining hall and dark, cramped and outdated kitchen facilities at Cambridge's youngest college.
The college moved to the site in 1894 from its original home in east London and occupies several buildings that were constructed in the 1870s for Cavendish College.
"The design of the hall is symbolic of Homerton's progressive character and bold ambitions, yet simultaneously in conversation with the rich architectural heritage of Cambridge," said Feilden Fowles director, Edmund Fowles.
"There are echoes of the marching buttresses of King's College Chapel, references to the Victorian Gothic Revival of Homerton's Cavendish College buildings, and motifs of the neighbouring arts and crafts Ibberson Building," he added.
"They combine as a marker of today's architectural thinking, an embodiment of low-tech principles, an arts and crafts of the 21st century."
