Anne Lister College, University of York

by Sheppard Robson

Client University of York

Project Architect Natalia Maximova 

Award RIBA Yorkshire Award 2023 and RIBA Yorkshire Project Architect of the Year Award 2023. 

The project provides 1,480 student residences along with social spaces that act as a ‘front door’ into the accommodation. It spans across two residential colleges – named after key LGBTQ+ figures, Anne Lister and David Kato – which form a new gateway into the Heslington East Campus.

Anne Lister College is the first phase of the project. The brief was to form a key addition to the University’s ‘Campus for the Future’ masterplan, combining a long-established ambition to create a neighbourhood campus with a drive to modernise facilities through an approach that has sustainability, wellness, and innovation at its heart. 

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

Contractor GRAHAM Construction 

Interior Design ID:SR Sheppard Robson 

Planning Consultant Indigo Planning 

Structural Engineer Cundall 

Services Engineer RPS 

Building Performance Yonder Consulting 

Landscape Architect Landscape Projects 

Ecology Brooks Ecological 

Access Consultant MAC Construction Consultants 

Building Control Accent 

Principal Designer Currie&Brown  

Gross internal area in m2 23,280