The MK:U International Design Competition today announced that the international team led by London-based Hopkins Architects was unanimously selected by the referees as the winner of their new model university competition launched in early 2019. MK:U is one of the major projects planned for Milton Keynes’s near future to develop the city’s economy to gain new competition. Designed to meet the needs of the digital age, it is designed to meet the needs of the 21st-century workplace and for future careers in emerging fields. It has attracted 257 solo companies from all over the world. Hopkins’ design proposal was chosen by Hopkins Architects largely because of the clarity of concept and the collaborative approach of the international team of experts. It illustrates an open green neighborhood, a logical series of academic stands and a friendly pedestrian space. At the heart of the project is the spectacular geometric lecture theater, enclosed in a giant glass lobby, welcoming newcomers. This proposed project was opened to its first undergraduate students in 2023. Hopkins’s design honors Milton Keynes’s urban design principles, reinterprets the concept of the city’s original block
