This is exceptional work that responds extremely well to the site and attends to a significant range of sustainable issues… It seems clear that everyone on the project team — the architect, the engineer, the builder, the client — must have been on the same page from the first moment...
— RAIA Jury

The Red Centre seeks a synthesis of site, programme and environmental control expressed through a formal elaboration of the structure and construction. New and existing buildings are integrated into a complex of articulated intersecting volumes related to use, purpose and public space.

The building houses the Faculty of the Built Environment, School of Mathematics and the International Centre. It is one of the most recognisable buildings on campus and incorporates a range of facilities including lecture theatre, exhibition, classroom and seminar spaces, design studios, computer laboratories, student lounge, workplace environments and integrated public domain.

The project has received international acclaim for its design excellence and environmental agenda, being awarded Honor Award for Design Excellence, Sustainable Design Awards Program from the AIA New York Chapter, Boston Society of Architects.