Huge new 48+ hectare public eco park plan announced for University of Warwick Campus
The University has submitted a proposal to create a huge new 48+ hectare public eco park on the south side of its campus for consideration in the South Warwickshire Local Plan.
The new eco park will help support and develop an even more sustainable future for the campus, its students and staff, and its surrounding communities.
At 48.8 hectares, the eco park will be comparable in size to Coventry’s popular Memorial Park. It will be open to the public as well as students and university staff, and will make a significant contribution to sustainable development delivering substantial community benefits to Coventry, Kenilworth, and the rest of South Warwickshire.
The plan also includes the new proposed stadium for Coventry City Football Club which would be located alongside, and in addition to, the proposed eco park area. It will be a green home for the Sky Blues drawing directly on the eco park’s ethos to be one of the UK’s greenest and most sustainable football stadia.
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New Faculty of Arts Building puts collaboration at the heart of a new ‘cultural quarter'
The University of Warwick recently opened the doors of its newest building, the Faculty of Arts, to its students, research and teaching staff and the public.
The £57.5m eight storey building brings together a diverse and international mix of minds from all walks of life, creating the optimum environment for generating a universe of ideas.
Previously dispersed academic departments, researchers and teachers within the arts and humanities at Warwick will be brought under one roof, with the aim of encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration and teaching excellence.
The building is intended not only as an outstanding new centre for teaching and research, but also to offer an interactive hub for engagement, with a new curator appointed to organise events and exhibitions for campus communities and the public.
It offers an antiquities room, new cinema and screening rooms, theatre studios and rehearsal rooms, collaboration spaces, a media lab and edit suite along with multi-purpose events and exhibition spaces.
The new building sits adjacent to the new Warwick Arts Centre development, close to the University’s main Library, establishing a creative and cultural quarter of campus.
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