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Corpus Christi College Oxford, Image, Design, Project, England, News
New Auditorium, Corpus Christi College Oxford
English Building by Rick Mather Architects, UK
Rick Mather Architects' Auditorium for Corpus Christi College in Oxford
receives planning permission

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The new much enlarged auditorium will replace the existing music room
and is considered the most important building to be constructed on
site in over 300 years.
The building site lies in the southwest corner of the college within
a Bastion of the 13th century City wall. The tall medieval stonewalls
separate the site from Christ Church Meadows to the south and the
Cathedral to the west. The existing Music Room on the site will be
demolished and the ground level excavated to just above the level
of the Christ Church gardens on the other side of the ancient city
wall.
The new flexible space will accommodate: 150 people for lectures and
dramatic/ music performances, conference facilities, banquets for
60-120 diners and college dances. A skylight above the theatre gives
views up to Christ Church Cathedral, and a large picture window opposite
gives views back to the trees of the College gardens. The scheme also
provides for a roof garden, with views over Christ Church Meadow to
the river.
Detailed design is currently underway and it is hoped that construction
will commence in July 2008.
Corpus Christi College Oxford info from Rick Mather Architects
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