Futurecity have won 2 major international art and public realm projects in the Addenbooke Hospital site in Cambridge. The Cambridge Biomedical Campus Circus and Piazza (delivered by Cambridge Medipark Limited, a joint venture between Liberty Trust and Countryside Properties Limited), and The Forum (Cambridge University NHS Foundation Trust and John Laing Investments), located at the heart of CBC.
Cambridge Biomedical Campus will be home to one of the largest internationally competitive concentrations of healthcare-related talent and enterprise in Europe, welcoming AstraZeneca’s new global Headquarter, the Medical Research Council and Laboratory of Molecular Biology, and the new Papworth hospital. Expanding to 70 acres on Cambridge’s Southern Fringe, the development will see a leading artist designing The Circus and Piazza public realm and amenities. This will be supported by a campus wide artist-in-residency programme, enabling artists to work alongside research and healthcare professionals. CBC offers an opportunity for a healthcare and biomedical campus to build on the growing integration of arts and science and be an inspiring environment for all its users; patients, staff and visitors.
Futurecity have also been appointed by Cambridge University NHS Foundation Trust and John Laing Investments to strategise and deliver an arts programme for The Forum. Located at the heart of CBC, the Forum will comprise a new and improved post-graduate education centre, a 550-seat conference centre, 75-bed private hospital, and a hotel with around 200 rooms to serve campus users. The project is being funded entirely by the private sector and all financial benefits the Trust will receive will go to support NHS patient care.
The combined projects will provide Futurecity with an ambitious commissioning programme of 20,000sq.m of public art projects embracing the public realm, landscape and amenities at the heart of the campus on 70 acres on Cambridge’s Southern Fringe.