THE Victoria Park Building for the University of Portsmouth has been granted planning permission, after councillors praised the building's "exceptional design".
Designed by Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios, the building houses 12-storeys of general and specialist teaching spaces. It will become the permanent home for the Faculties of Business & Law and Humanities and Social Sciences and is the centre piece of the University’s Estates Masterplan. Academic workspaces are focused around two triple height atria with imposing views of the city, park, and sea.
New facilities include a 500- seat lecture theatre, two 250-seat collaborative lecture theatres, general and specialist teaching spaces, academic offices, administrative offices and a roof top restaurant and terrace which will be open to the public.
The building aims to be net zero carbon ready and is currently on course to achieve BREEAM Outstanding under the 2018 criteria.
