{"id":59099,"date":"2025-10-04T01:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/59099\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T01:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:15:21","slug":"university-of-huddersfield-nhs-centre-wins-design-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/59099\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Huddersfield NHS centre wins design award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UniversityUniversity of Huddersfield\/LDRS<\/p>\n

The Daphne Steele building forms part of the university’s National Health Innovation Campus<\/p>\n

A university building named after the first black NHS matron has won an award for design excellence.<\/p>\n

The Daphne Steele Building at the University of Huddersfield’s won the Design Excellence Award at the Insider Yorkshire Property Awards.<\/p>\n

The six-storey building is part of the National Health Innovation Campus, which encompasses teaching, research and community healthcare services.<\/p>\n

University deputy vice-chancellor Professor Tim Thornton said: “The building represents our ambitious agenda superbly in its architectural innovation, outstanding quality, and immediate impact for our students and the wider community.”<\/p>\n

Opened in September 2024, the Daphne Steele Building is named after the Windrush-era nurse who settled in West Yorkshire after emigrating from Guyana, and became the first matron from the African-Caribbean community in the NHS.<\/p>\n

The building was designed by architects AHR, who collected the award on 18 September along with members of the university team.<\/p>\n

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The Ramsden Building first opened in 1884<\/p>\n

The University’s Grade II listed Ramsden Building, which is currently being refurbished, was also among the winners.<\/p>\n

Formerly home to much of the School of Human and Health Sciences, it won the Decarbonisation Project of the Year at the National Project Excellence Awards.<\/p>\n

Opened in 1884 as part of the Huddersfield Technical School and Mechanics’ Institute, planned renovations will reveal features of the building that have been hidden for the past 140 years.<\/p>\n

Prof Thornton said: “The landmark refurbishment of Ramsden Building, which has been an important part of the University’s work for over a century, highlights what is possible in building on a rich heritage of innovation and education, and at the same time achieving demanding carbon goals.”<\/p>\n

When the refurbishment is complete it will house the International Study Centre, the International Office and the Graduate School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University of Huddersfield\/LDRS The Daphne Steele building forms part of the university’s National Health Innovation Campus A university…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-59099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}