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Huntingdon Street corner

Huntingdon Street corner

Great Freeman Street – Warehouse

Great Freeman Street – Warehouse

Great Freeman Street — Window Shades

Great Freeman Street — Window Shades

Great Freeman Street – Facade Composition

Great Freeman Street – Facade Composition

Internal courtyard

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
Location Nottingham
Status Completed 2021
Homes 300 student bedrooms
Team
Alan McCartney
Zahir Vali