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Building study: UCL East’s Marshgate by Stanton Williams

By 2023-09-20T06:00:00

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With the biggest development in its history, UCL wanted to create a new type of university campus. Daniel Gayne reports on how the team got on

Everyone is moving east these days. Whether you are Sadler’s Wells, the V&A or the BBC, it seems that East Bank, Stratford’s wannabe cultural hub, is the place to be. 

UCL’s move across town has been more than a decade in the making, but this autumn it will finally open the doors to Marshgate, the £250m campus which will be its largest single building as well as the biggest development in the university’s 200-year history. 

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