Ulster University Belfast Campus

by Feilden Clegg Bradly Studios with McAdam Design, Scott Tallon Walker and White Ink Architects

Client Ulster University

Award RIBA Northern Ireland Award 2024 and RIBA Northern Ireland Building of the Year 2024 (Sponsored by EH Smith).

Ulster University Belfast CampusDonal McCannWEBIMAGE2jpg — Ulster University Belfast Campus © Donal McCann

The new Ulster University campus is located on the northern edge of Belfast city centre. The project is highly significant on two counts. Firstly, in the university’s bold decision to relocate its Jordanstown campus from a 1970s complex on the city’s outskirts to a new scheme within Belfast’s core, bringing with it people and energy – something the contemporary city centre craves. The other is how the complex, expansive brief has been accommodated on a challenging, irregular site through the architects’ intelligence and skill.

The mass of the overall building is carefully tailored to respond to its more domestic neighbours, while stepping up to create city scaled moments at key junctions. Inside, the necessary accommodation is grouped around a series of light-flooded atria.

Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal.

Contractors Sacyr Somague / Lagan Somague JV

Project Management Currie & Brown / WH Stephens

Compliance Monitoring Team (Construction Stage) Tetratech

Structural Engineer (Design Stage) Mott MacDonald

Structural Engineer (Design & Build Contractor C&S Engineer) RPS

Services Engineer (Design Stage) Mott MacDonald

Services Engineer (Compliance Monitoring Team at Construction Stage) Tetratech

Services Engineer (Design & Build Contractor C&S Engineer) Promec

Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant WH Stephens

CDM Watts

Landscape Architects Grant Associates