Home \ News & Events \ News \ Landmark building for Nottingham Trent University School of Art and Design approved Landmark building for Nottingham Trent University School of Art and Design approved\ 21/10/2021 Designed as a whole-life net zero carbon university building, 40 and 42 Shakespeare Street will foster collaboration across the city's creative industries and enhance the link between the university campus and the wider city. Nottingham City Council has granted planning for a new 5,300 sq m (GIA) Art and Design building for Nottingham Trent University. Designed by Hawkins\Brown, the building at 40 and 42 Shakespeare Street will provide a variety of creative workspaces for designing, making, collaborating, specialist studios and labs, teaching rooms and public exhibition and café space, for one of the UK’s leading art and design schools. It will feature a glazed ground floor entrance which will be used as an exhibition space as well as an inviting social learning spaces that offers opportunities for collaboration within the university, industry and the local community. The building sits to the north of Nottingham city centre and will create a link to the campus on a prominent corner site, extending a new welcome from the Nottingham Trent University Campus to the city. “This new building pushes the boundaries, not only through the architecture and technologies used to create it, but through the courses on offer, the opportunity for collaboration, and the graduates it will produce. ” Michael Marsden Executive Dean of the Nottingham School of Art & Design “Using our in-house carbon assessment tool, H\B:ERT, we have been able to evaluate the carbon impact of our choices throughout the design process. This new building for Nottingham Trent University reaches a high standard for sustainability and the university has committed to make it a whole-life net zero carbon university building.” Julia Roberts Partner & Education Sector Lead Share this page You may also like... Projects Student Centre and New Square\ Flexible social learning spaces Leeds School of Arts\ Inspiring collaboration and cultural dialogue London\ 159 St John Street EC1V 4QJ T: 020 7336 8030 mail@hawkinsbrown.com Manchester\ 3rd Floor, Hilton House 26-28 Hilton Street M1 2EH T: 0161 641 5522 mail@hawkinsbrown.com Edinburgh\ Spaces, 1 Lochrin Square 92 Fountainbridge EH3 9QA T: 0131 370 8820 mail@hawkinsbrown.com Los Angeles\ 8500 Steller Drive Building 1 CA, 90232 T: +1 213 493 2001 mail@hawkinsbrown.com Dublin\ 3rd Floor 22 Ely Place D02 AH73 mail@hawkinsbrown.com Services\ Urban Design and Masterplanning Working with Artists Sustainability Social Value Digital Design Sectors\ Civic, Community & Culture Education & Research Healthcare Infrastructure & Transport Interior Design Residential Workplace Copyright © Hawkins Brown Architecture Ltd. 2021 / Legals, Privacy & Cookies