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.

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.

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.

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!

 

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I don't think i can beat that XD

Give it a go, let's see what your uni looked like.

Can we do Universities/Colleges we work in?

Yeah, fine. Really just wanted to stop people just posting random photos of university buildings!

 

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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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That's a funky building.

I used to walk past the building every time (it's now mainly halls and a bar) and it never got boring, it was just so huge and summer days in the quads were excellent.

Royal Holloway. Pretty building, but worst university location of all time?

Nah, was annoying that being so close to London it took so long to get their by train (45 minutes WTF!) but it was right next to Windsor Park. All the female international students were

 

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Ahhh another plymouth grad. When did you graduate? They've got a lot more building work going on now, some sort of marine science block I believe. Was portland square there when you were there? Nothing like the spectacle that is RL building but still very nice plus smeaton has had a bit of a refit too. It's become a really nice university, always felt it was a very pleasant place to be, the maths department were pretty good as well.

I only graduated wish years ago!

They were just finishing off the new social building and the recladding of the other building (name escapes me) when I left. It still doesn't have a patch (looks and space wise) to a lot of other campuses... Makes up for it being right next to the Hoe/Sound and Dartmoor however!