Birmingham Metropolitan College’s Erdington campus provides a state-of-the-art construction training facility. We chose to align the scheme to the residential scale on the frontage by breaking the massing down into a series of gables which picks up on the rhythms of the nearby terraced houses. The building balances the residential typology with that of the High Street by providing

a glazed facade at ground level to provide an active frontage. The Centre was shortlisted for a national Brick Award under the Best Craftsmanship category (eventually losing out to tough competition: the winner of the Stirling Prize, no less).