Rate my University... Building?!

Where I got my edumacation.

Coventry Uni Library

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I wish my library was open 24/7. It's very irritating having it shut at 10pm, even more so that the library services end at 8 or so. Like the rest of my uni, it's a horrible building also.

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Amp34 said:
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








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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My first University was the same, although they were just completing it and had not opened it during my tenure.

I have been there since for guest speakers and like you say, it seems to be a mish mash inside, it looks nice don't get me wrong but very hard to find anything, and all of the staff offices were in the middle?
 
Well... I went to two universities, Birmingham and Plymouth, both ex-polytechnics. Due to this they looked bloody horrible. (Note.. in the picture of the Plymouth, the grey building in the background with the Plymouth Uni sign on is an old building, it just has an external finish on it now to make it look more modern.. in truth it's still an old polytechnic building (yuck)). The old stone building are much cooler.
 
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Scougar said:
Well... I went to two universities, Birmingham and Plymouth, both ex-polytechnics. Due to this they looked bloody horrible. (Note.. in the picture of the Plymouth, the grey building in the background with the Plymouth Uni sign on is an old building, it just has an external finish on it now to make it look more modern.. in truth it's still an old polytechnic building (yuck)). The old stone building are much cooler.
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The library?

I did Maths @ Comp Sci inside the old stone building. Didn't really like it. And then there was Babbage... which was just bland from memory. Felt like an American high school building.
 
I think my old uni wins the wooden spoon award. I present to you Bowland Tower in all it's splendour. :p
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Concrete jungle innit.
 
Went to Brunel, not too briefly but didn't finish, awful campus, awful area, awful course, awful everything..... same alcohol as everywhere else though.

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lol, it used to look worse, or just different. They've grassed over the concrete base of the quad, added a tree, grown some green crap up the building(not visible in that pic), painted some crap white, put some flowers on it. The building is still god awful any way you think about it.
 
skippy2421 said:
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.
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Another plymouth grad here. The new marine science building opened last (academic) year, its an awesome facility. RL is a PITA to find a room in, along with the most pointless "cafe" ever :p

Despite all the abuse that it gets, its a really nice area to be in, sat with a pint on top of the SU :D
 
Redz said:
I think my old uni wins the wooden spoon award. I present to you Bowland Tower in all it's splendour. :p

Concrete jungle innit.
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Not the worst building on campus, that award must go to County college. Horrible concrete brick, but used to have a brilliant bar.
The view from the roof of Bowland tower is very impressive though, once you get the mobile phone companies to turn the cell off.
 
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