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Celebrating its centenary this month, the Grade II listed Main Building at Cardiff University is one of the city's major landmarks.The university had previously been located on the site of the Old...
Celebrating its centenary this month, the Grade II listed Main Building at Cardiff University is one of the city's major landmarks.The university had previously been located on the site of the Old...
Although the University of Portsmouth has had a single, purpose-built library since 1976, which was extended in 1988, changing technology and huge expansion in student numbers have left it unsuitable...
Part of the largest university accommodation project in the UK, the eco-residences at Lancaster University's County and Grizedale Colleges provide 800 rooms for students.Designed by Leeds-based...
The 16-storey Muirhead Tower, named after the University of Birmingham's first professor of philosophy, has become one of its iconic buildings.Although Sir Philip Dowson's original 1971 facade has...
The University of Edinburgh's Waddington Building, which officially opened last week to house its Centre for Systems Biology, offers a flexible environment for experimental and theoretical...
The University of Sunderland's CitySpace, which opens next week, was designed by architects FaulknerBrowns to act as the focal point for all non-academic aspects of campus life: sport, socialising...
Grove House, a Grade II listed building that forms part of Roehampton University's Froebel College, stands on the site of Roehampton Great House.This was built under Charles I, in about 1625, for Sir...
Standing at the entrance to the Queensgate Campus, the University of Huddersfield's new creative arts building opened last year and has already established itself as a landmark on the ring road...
Although there has been a library at The Queen's College, Oxford since its foundation in the 1340s, its present Upper Library - considered by many to be one of the most beautiful rooms in the city -...
Built around a chestnut tree, the University of Warwick's celebrated Mathematics Research Centre Houses have been described as a modern Stonehenge.The five houses and two flats were conceived in 1967...
The University of Gloucestershire's Centre for Active Learning in Cheltenham was designed to embrace a philosophy of collaboration between students and staff.A consultation process in 2003-04 led to...
James Wyatt's Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford is a major monument of English neoclassicism. Inspired by the Tower of the Winds in Athens, with huge windows specially designed for telescopes, it was...
When the University of Leicester's library was refurbished and extended recently, the architects had to take account both of changing student needs and of the building's position at the heart of...
The University of Essex's Ivor Crewe lecture hall in Colchester, which opened in 2006, was described as "looking like a dustbin" by the Prince of Wales last year.Only a few weeks later, it was...
Completed a century ago, the Glasgow School of Art recently beat the Eden Project and the Pompidou Centre to be named as the best British-designed building of the past 175 years by RIBA Journal, the...