Hawkins Brown has won planning permission for a 5,300sq m art and design building for Nottingham Trent University that will combine traditional practice with creative technologies.

The new Nottingham School of Art & Design will deliver workspaces for designing and making, collaboration space, specialist studios and labs, teaching rooms, café space and a public exhibition area. The university gave a project value of £35m for the Shakespeare Street block.

Its site, to the north of Nottingham city centre, will create a link between the city centre and Trent University’s main campus, Hawkins Brown said.

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