Locations and Resources

22 Gordon Street (formerly Wates House) on UCL's Bloomsbury campus, has been home to The Bartlett School of Architecture and The Bartlett School of Planning since 1975. In December 2016, following a four-year, £30 million refurbishment and extension carried out by Hawkins\Brown, the school moved back into its radically transformed home. The building contains design studios, shared working areas, a contemporary exhibition space, cutting-edge facilities such as the B-made workshop, plus buzzing social areas and a cafe. 

With its atmosphere of openness, spontaneity and collaboration, the building has not only proved popular with students and staff, but with the wider architectural community. It won the prestigious 2017 RIBA London Region Award, and was shortlisted for the 2017 AJ Building of the Year award. 

In the heart of Bloomsbury, students can enjoy the wide range of restaurants, cafes museums, galleries and libraries that London has to offer. The school can be easily accessed by public transport and is in close reach of the UCL main campus.

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Occupying over 100,000 square metres in London’s Queen Elizabeth Park, Here East is one of London’s most exceptional new developments. The 10-metre-high studio space at Here East is a home for ground-breaking research in areas that include architecture, infrastructure, transport, robotics, healthcare, manufacturing and environmental measurement. The site was UCL’s first presence in the Olympic Park, ahead of the UCL East development, and grants tremendous opportunities for interdisciplinary research, teaching, co-creation and collaboration.

Here East boasts a wide range of cafes, and a dynamic social scene of live music, parks and local events around Queen Elizabeth Park and East London, including the newly opened V&A East Storehouse. It has excellent transport links via nearby Stratford, the Overground at Hackney Wick and easy access to London’s cycling infrastructure.

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The Bartlett School of Architecture has four programmes which are delivered at Here East:

• Engineering and Architectural Design MEng
• Design for Manufacture MArch
• Design for Performance and Interaction MArch
• Situated Practice MA

Designed by Stanton Williams, UCL East Marshgate is a 35,000-square-metre, state-of-the-art academic building in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Together with One Pool Street, designed by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, the scheme marks the completion of the first phase of the UCL East campus masterplan – UCL’s biggest expansion in its 200-year history.

UCL East Marshate features eight floors of hi-tech, cross-disciplinary research labs, teaching areas, fabrication workshops, collaboration spaces, a library, a refectory, prayer space and a UCL Institute of Making. Students based at Marshgate have access to advanced software and equipment, a dedicated studio, specialist media spaces and the UCL East cinema.

At the heart of the building is a central atrium that is openly accessible to encourage inclusivity and community engagement, with the use of 'Fluid Zones' at ground and first floor level to draw people into the building. Floor space above these levels has been designed to encourage collaboration and engagement between academic uses through largely open plan and circulatory spaces.

UCL East is a founding partner of East Bank, a new powerhouse for innovation, creativity and learning on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, along with the BBC, Sadler's Wells, the V&A and UAL: London College of Fashion.

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The Bartlett School of Architecture has two programmes which are delivered at Marshgate: 

• Cinematic and Videogame Architecture MArch
• Engineering and Architectural Design MEng

77 Wicklow Street is a 15-minute walk from UCL’s Bloomsbury campus and is one of The Bartlett School of Architecture’s newest locations. In 2023, the building officially opened its doors to Landscape Architecture students, expanding the school’s central London footprint. 

Spread over two floors, the building has two large open-plan design studios, as well as multiple breakout rooms for tutorials and seminars. The ground floor accommodates a reception, lecture theatre, staff and research area, studio spaces, print room, seminar rooms, bike store and kitchen. The lower ground floor houses a workshop space, further studio spaces, a computer room, an additional kitchen, more seminar rooms and an exhibition space.

The site has allowed for the addition of a new B-made workshop space on the lower ground floor – the third of The Bartlett’s B-made workshops (with existing workshops at 22 Gordon Street and Here East). Its resources include woodworking tools, CNC machines, 3D printers and a Zund cutting machine to facilitate the quick fabrication of large-scale landscape models.

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The Bartlett’s library is one of the most comprehensive to be found anywhere on architecture, planning, building and construction management, with around 40,000 monograph volumes, a technical information section and current editions of more than 250 magazines and journals.

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