Oxford’s most popular attractions, the Meadow and Christ Church, to get new visitor facilities.

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Martin Bhatia comments: The Meadow is a wonderful rural landscape sharply juxtaposed with the urban centre of Oxford. However, the rural character around its urban margins have become eroded and are becoming gentrified with the introduction of ornamental trees and mown lawn. As with so many of our projects, our approach was one of rural restraint where, if successful, it will not be at all clear what is natural and what is ‘designed’, but the new buildings will have a natural fit with their landscape setting and the original landscape character of the Meadow, so valued, becomes strengthened.

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