Managing Contemporary and Historic Design and Development –

September 2017 The View from the Street

Louise Thomas HTVF Director & Urban Designer Oxford: Town & Gown

Inaccessible ‘private’ realm • Oxford’s other major employers: publishing, local government, healthcare, charities, manufacturing, other education • View from the public realm – majority view Four Key Conservation Areas

• Wide range of North Oxford Victoria Suburb (1968) characteristics Walton • Different design Manor approaches (1973)

• Redevelopment and Jericho infill schemes (2011)

Central (1971) Contemporary or Carbuncle?

HRH Prince Charles’ A Vision of Britain, A Personal View of Architecture (1989). Ten Principles:

1. Respect - for place/ land 7. Decoration – repetition 2. Hierarchy - public and character importance 8. Art – Adding richness 3. Scale – of human and 9. Signs and Lights – designed buildings for the context 4. Harmony – fitting in 10. Community – 5. Enclosure – making spaces empowerment and 6. Materials – context and engagement character What makes ‘good’ design?

• Recognising the role of the Special and Ordinary • Active frontages • Places, not just Spaces • Logical Scale and Massing • Contrast or Empathy • Revealing Patterns/ Articulation • Texture The Special and The Ordinary Active Frontages The Sainsbury Library, Said Business School, 2001 The New , 1930s The , 2015 Bonn Square, 2008 Places, not just Spaces Blavatnik School of Government, 2016 Logical Scale and Massing

Oxford University Press, 1830 Contrast or Empathy

Middle East Centre, St Anthony’ s College, 2015 , Dept for Continuing Studies, 1986 Griffiths ‘Green’ Building, Linacre College, 1997 Revealing Patterns/ Articulation

Kendrew Quad, St John’s College, 2011 St Cross College, 2017 Texture/ Quality/ Materials

Somerville College, 2013 ARCO and Sloane Robinson Buildings, Keble College, 1995