Overview

• Oxford City Council approved Morris & Co’s design for a four-storey teaching and research facility in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter.
• Somerville College held a ground-breaking ceremony on September 23 to begin construction of the permanent home for the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development.
• The project is enabled by a significant philanthropic gift from the Tata Group and the building is named in honor of Ratan Tata.
• The development occupies the final available site in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter and is the first University of Oxford building named after an Indian.
• The ceremony also saw Somerville confer its highest philanthropic honor, a Foundation Fellowship, on Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran.