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The James Weir Building was designed by Peter Williams of the local architectural firm Shanks, Wylie and Underwood (Williams later designed other prolific academic buildings in the area such as the Met Tower and the Central College of Commerce) and was constructed over the period 1956–1964 in two distinct phases as a north eastern extension to the Royal College Building, which allowed the ...
The building is located within the John Anderson Campus of the University of Strathclyde. It is part of a mixed-use development which includes the University's own McCance and Collins Buildings, a two-storey sub-surface NCP car park, and a row of retail units at street level on George Street. There is also private car parking for Glasgow City ...
The John Anderson Campus, the main campus of The University of Strathclyde, is in Glasgow, Scotland. The campus is self-contained in its own area which straddles the Townhead and Merchant City districts on the north eastern side of the city centre, while being only minutes from the M8 Motorway, George Square and is located midway between Queen ...
In 2004, the university embarked on a 20-year programme of remodelling and renewal of the John Anderson Campus. Part of this was to cluster the engineering departments on the "Island Site" (the original Royal College and James Weir Building ) - with both the Departments of Architecture and Civil Engineering moving from their former homes, thus ...
The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals; Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Ghlaschu [7]) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded by papal bull in 1451 [ O.S. 1450], [ 8 ] it is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities .
The Wolfson Centre is an academic building within the city of Glasgow, Scotland and part of the University of Strathclyde's John Anderson Campus.. The structure, completed in 1972 houses the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and is a celebrated example of Brutalist architecture within the city, [1] and is protected as a Grade B listed building.
The towers of Trinity College and Glasgow University are visible. This is a list of Category A listed buildings in Glasgow , Scotland . In Scotland, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of "special architectural or historic interest". [ 1 ]
The St Paul's Building (formerly St Paul's (Outer High) Parish Church), is a deconsecrated church building located at 104 John Street in the Townhead area of Glasgow, Scotland. Originally constructed in 1904, it has been part of the University of Strathclyde (and its predecessor institution the Royal College of Science and Technology ) since ...