The Fire Surgery was commissioned to provide a fire strategy for two new buildings on the Savile Road Campus for New College Oxford - The Main Quad building and New Warham House.

David Kohn Architects won planning consent for the scheme, which is known as the Gradel Quadrangles after the principal donor.

Alongside new student accommodation, the project also contains a student study space, music hall and new facilities for the adjacent New College School, a boys’ preparatory school. A tower and gatehouse complete the composition that Historic England has described as ‘one of the very few instances where contemporary design can be considered genuinely outstanding’.

Client: Longwall II Ltd. & Sir Robert McAlpine

Architect: David Kohn Architects

Project Date/s: 2018-20

Project Value: £45M