Fosters working on plans to transform Oxford chapel into restaurant for US billionaire

By Tom Lowe2026-03-05T12:42:00

Larry Ellison envisages site as gathering place for ’some of Oxford’s greatest minds’

Foster + Partners is working on plans to transform a former chapel in Oxford into a high-end restaurant for Larry Ellison, the world’s sixth richest man.

The Chapel and Lodge scheme is envisaged as a meeting place for scientists working at the Ellison Institute of Technology’s (EIT) neighbouring research campus, which is currently being built by Laing O’Rourke and is set to complete next year.

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