Imperial College Imperial College, one of Britain’s premier research and teaching institutions, established its main campus in South Kensington, west London in 1907. Their new strategic target of accommodating their students within walking distance of their main teaching facilities necessitated additional student accommodation of superior quality to their existing student housing which was sub-standard, unattractive to potential students and a detraction from the standards of academic excellence for which Imperial is known. The school’s two buildings on Princes Gardens, built in the 1950’s and 60’s were in poor repair, not fully accessible, environmentally unsustainable, and disproportionately expensive to maintain. Imperial aimed to attract the best and the brightest, yet these buildin

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