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Coventry Buildings : Architecture

Key Architectural Developments in Warwickshire, Midlands, central England, UK

post updated 16 September 2021

Coventry Architecture – Key Buildings

Coventry Cathedral
Date built: 1951-62
Design: Basil Spence architect
Coventry Cahtedral building by Basil Spence architect
photo © David Jamieson
Coventry Cathedral
Coventry Cathedral architect : Basil Spence

The Whittle Arch – The Phoenix Initiative, Millennium Plaza
Date built: 2003
Design: MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects
The Whittle Arch - The Phoenix Initiative
photo © webbaviation
Dedicated to the inventor of the jet engine, Sir Frank Whittle (e-architect Editor Adrian Welch’s grandmother’s cousin!)

Coventry Architecture News

23 Sep 2021
Prof Lord Bhattacharyya Building
Design: Cullinan Studio Architects
Prof Lord Bhattacharyya Building Coventry
photograph © Nick Hufton
Prof Lord Bhattacharyya Building
This project is of a consistently high standard throughout. The brief for the project was complex in bringing together academic and industry research in the same building together to foster innovation and collaboration.

4 Jul 2017
Sherborne House
Design: Fraser Brown MacKenna
Sherborne House, Coventry Student Residences | www.e-architect.com
photograph © Tim Crocker Photography
Coventry Student Residences
This new student residential building in central Coventry was completed by Pickstock Construction, using a volumetric system to deliver the building in just nine months from planning approval to occupation. The new building provides 114 new studio rooms and improved communal facilities at Sherborne House, an existing halls of residence operated by Axo Student Living.

2 Aug 2016
Water Park Building
Design: FaulknerBrowns Architects
Coventry Water Park Building
image from architect
Coventry Water Park Building
This new Coventry building has received planning approval. The tight city centre site – adjacent to one of the three spires within the city – informs a design that stacks the accommodation vertically instead of sprawling horizontally.

Coventry Buildings

Coventry Architectural Projects + Key New Property Designs, alphabetical:

Belgrade Theatre extension
2007
Design: Stanton Williams
Belgrade Theatre Coventry Building
picture from architect
Coventry theatre building

Coventry City Centre Masterplan
2009-
Design: Jerde Partnership
Coventry City Centre Masterplan design by Jerde
picture from architect
Coventry City Centre Masterplan

Coventry City Centre, Masterplan
1997
Design: Stephen Hodder Architects

Coventry Phoenix Project
2003
Design: MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects

Coventry University – competition winner
2008-
Design: Arup Associates
Coventry University Competition building design
picture from architect
Coventry University building

Friargate Masterplan
2009-
Design: Allies and Morrison Architects
Friargate Regeneration: Coventry Building
picture from architect office
Friargate Masterplan

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum Extension
2007-08
Design: Pringle Richards Sharratt
Approx. £11.5m

Powergen Headquarters

Design: Bennetts Associates

Priory Visitor Centre
2001
Design: MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects

Ricoh Arena
2007
Design: Miller Partnership

Sidney Stringer Academy
2009-
Design: Sheppard Robson Architects
Sidney Stringer Academy Coventry building
picture from architect practice
Sidney Stringer Academy

More Coventry buildings online soon

Location: Coventry, Midlands, central England, UK

Birmingham Architecture

Contemporary Architecture in the Midlands – architectural selection below:

Birmingham Architecture Walking Tours : West Midlands Buildings Tour

Birmingham Architecture Designs – chronological list

Birmingham Architect

Birmingham Buildings

Architectural Walking Tours

Other examples of Coventry Architecture welcome

Coventry Phoenix Project architects : MacCormac Jamieson Prichard

Birmingham Buildings

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