Rate my University... Building?!

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Reading the thread on CompSci courses got me thinking. What is the best university building a member of OcUK has been taught in?

So the aim. Post a picture of the best looking building at your university (past/present) and we'll see where the nicest ones are.:p

What you don't do... Post any old building. You have to have spent at least a term there and it has to be a building that is actually owned/regularly used by the university you went to...;)

So my Undergrad was at a nondescript modern city university, Plymouth, however it did have a couple of nice buildings, firstly the Scott Building, the first university building, built in the 1800s, the other, more impressive is the Roland Levinsky building.

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The great thing is, it is the Arts building (full of Architects) and the building itself is all form over function and a massive pain to navigate and use... Hopefully the Architects take that experience with them to their careers.:p

My postgrad on the other hand was an old uni located in a more suburban campus, centred round a large Red Brick building modelled after a Chateau in France.

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Certainly more impressive than the undergrad buildings.

So can anyone beat that? ;)

Try and keep it to one building per university and at max a couple of pictures!
 
Second one is Royal Holloway is it not?

It was a nice building, but I think the Georgian Architecture would have got too much after a while.

I'll post a few up:

Being a 60's Uni, a lot is concrete, but pretty sure that Norman Foster designed quite a bit of it way back when.

Ziggurats: Listed building, recently was on the cover of one of The Streets Albums.
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The main building. Don't even know what it's called.... It's so big that frankly you have to look at it from Google Maps.... I think until recently it was the longest building in Europe.
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TPSC, newer building, quite nice, not too bad :)
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Edit: Might as well post something awesome, not built but proposed.
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This design looks awesome, also I remember seeing a reddit thread with a European hall and it was a circular shape with grass in the middle. Anyone remember it?
 
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RomanNose said:
No, but I left at 6th form. It would be fairly easy to find my name just by asking someone on fb the name of the kid that liked computers.
Small school, everyone pretty much knew each other.
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I don't think we're really that interested to be honest but fair enough.
 
We've got some pretty awesome buildings, but nothing quite as visually impressive as those above.

The Zeeman building here is fantastic for other reasons, when it was being designed, the maths department ran movement simulations to see where to place blackboards and study areas. As a result, despite being one of the busiest buildings on campus everyone always has space and it rarely feels crowded
 
The Pilkington Library was probably the most interesting building at Loughborough. It was kind of an inverted pyramid which you entered on the top floor and went down to ground level...

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http://myportfolio.rgu.com/artefact/file/download.php?file=11489&view=1637

From top right to bottom left

Grays School of Art (went there for materials)
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture (got my degree there)
Management Faculty Building (relocated library in there so went there) (Designed by Lord Foster and rattled like hell in high winds and leaked when it rained!:p)
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School of Social Studies (wasn't built before i left uni)
Some fancy university Sports centre (wasn't built before i left uni) (not pictured or where I've got ???)

The masterplan was designed by Lord Foster when i was at uni and the university is still to fully relocate down to Garthdee although all has moved from the Kepplestone site (sold to Stewart Milne to build a load of flats / houses)
 
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been to Royal Holloway once on a physics trip about cern and stuff a few years ago. building looked pretty but inside wasnt up to much.

reading uni might have fugly buildings, but it has awesome names for them.

Minghella building, whiteknight campus

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anyone reckon they have anything worse than the horror that is the URS building at reading campus:
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underneath the hideousness

theres also a hideous square pond next to the building
 
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Derek W said:
http://myportfolio.rgu.com/artefact/file/download.php?file=11489&view=1637

From top right to bottom left

Grays School of Art (went there for materials)
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture (got my degree there)
Management Faculty Building (relocated library in there so went there) (Designed by Lord Foster and rattled like hell in high winds and leaked when it rained!:p)
???
School of Social Studies (wasn't built before i left uni)
Some fancy university Sports centre (wasn't built before i left uni) (not pictured or where I've got ???)

The masterplan was designed by Lord Foster when i was at uni and the university is still to fully relocate down to Garthdee although all has moved from the Kepplestone site (sold to Stewart Milne to build a load of flats / houses)
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Eww, RGU. :p
 
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