Shepherd Robson to lead Birley Fields design – Manchester
The Manchester office of architects’ firm Sheppard Robson has been has been appointed to lead the design team at Manchester Metropolitan University’s new £120m Birley Fields campus in Hulme.
It will create around 340 jobs, and provide a new home for 6,000 staff and students from the Institute of Education and the Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care.
The new campus will deliver outstanding teaching and research spaces, a student information point, student accommodation, car parking, shared community facilities and a major public square fronting Stretford Road …