Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed two student accommodation blocks at Somerville College Oxford
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The 68-bedroom scheme sits next to the Rafael Viñoly-masterplanned Radcliffe Observatory Quarter which is currently under construction.
According to a spokesman the apartments will all all undergraduates to live in College throughout their course, providing ‘financial relief to those who would otherwise pay far more for year-round contracts with private landlords, but also greatly enhance the student experience and feeling of community among undergraduates’.
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