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KNIGHT HOUSE
74 CREATES STUNNING LANDMARK AND INTERIORS AT KNIGHT HOUSE , UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD , FOR IQ STUDENT ACCOMMODATION
New landmark student accommodation Knight House in Sheffield has been masterplanned and designed by Manchester-based architects and designers 74 , who additionally created the project ’ s full interiors scheme , including bedrooms , corridors , wayfinding and all amenity spaces . The new-build architecture for the classleading student accommodation offer was implemented by Leedsbased architects Cunniff Design , with 74 acting as client-side architectural advisor .
’ We worked on this project from its very earliest days ’, 74 Founder David Holt commented . ’ 74 was initially engaged to examine the ongoing strategy of iQ Student Accommodation ’ s Sheffield campus , made up of three buildings adjacent to the University of
Sheffield . The brief was to re-organise the existing buildings on the site , but further study of the plans and immediate environs revealed the potential of an adjacent site that turned out to be in the company ’ s ownership , in use at the time as a car park . A promising further discovery was a lapsed planning permission for a 12-storey building on the site , whilst under previous ownership . Once we had the client ’ s go-ahead to propose a new building , we sought to maximise the development volume and created the design for a 257-bed , 17-storey student accommodation building , which we are delighted to say has now completed and is set to become a key part of the iQ Student Accommodation Sheffield campus .’
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