Huntingdon Street corner
Great Freeman Street – Warehouse
Great Freeman Street — Window Shades
Great Freeman Street – Facade Composition
Internal courtyard
Straits Village
Straits Village is a collection of crafted red brick buildings set around an intimate courtyard and mews that provide a campus environment where students can enjoy indoor and outdoor amenities. The project is a 300-bed purpose-built student accommodation scheme close to Nottingham city centre that combines sophisticated private studios, shared apartments, and townhouses all on the same site, creating a unique and vibrant community.
The site is bounded by two-storey late Victorian houses, a linear warehouse building, along with a step-in scale onto Huntingdon Street. Our design offers complementing scales, from a local marker block to a long warehouse typology to a mews townhouse setting. Built using traditional construction methods, the red brick language of a deep-modelled facade with brick piers, soldier heads, and extruded metal fin screens articulate the scheme’s various building typologies and pays homage to the city’s historic lace market.
The amenities within are focused on appealing to prospective residents. They include a private landscaped courtyard, communal lounge, cycle hub, games room and cinema, plus a top-floor entertainment space with a viewing gallery. The landscaped areas provide outdoor amenity space and help connect the residential community to the east with the city centre through an improved and animated streetscape.
| Client | DML Developments Managers Ltd | |
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| Location | Nottingham | |
| Status | Completed 2021 | |
| Homes | 300 student bedrooms | |
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