New Glasgow City College Riverside Campus, Further Education Building Project, Development
New City of Glasgow College – City Campus Building
City Campus, Cathedral Street & Thistle Street: Education Development Strathclyde, west Scotland – News + Architects
21 Jul 2017
City of Glasgow College – City Campus
Design: Michael Laird Architects / Reiach and Hall Architects
New City of Glasgow College – City Campus
City of Glasgow College – Stirling Prize 2017 Shortlisted
21 Jul – The City of Glasgow College is one of six buildings on the shortlist for the 22nd annual Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building:
Stirling Prize 2017 Shortlist
by Reiach And Hall Architects and Michael Laird Architects
Client: City of Glasgow College
Awards: RIBA Award for Scotland 2017 and RIBA National Award 2017
photo © Keith Hunter
The merger of Glasgow’s central, metropolitan and nautical colleges created a super college bringing together facilities and teaching previously housed in 11 separate buildings across the city within two new central campuses. City Campus, more than 60,000m2 in size, is the second of these large new buildings. It brings together six major faculties in 300 high-tech classrooms, multi-purpose lecture theatres and specialist teaching facilities.
photo © Keith Hunter
While the initial impression of this building is as something of immense scale which also signals its presence as an important place of learning, its internal spaces are designed to encourage both the formal teaching processes which it contains and informal, more chance encounters. The materials palette and form of the building are deliberately restrained to generate something of skill, clarity and elegance, on the grandest scale.
photo © Keith Hunter
There is an astonishing scale and complexity to the brief for this project and considerable architectural skill is demonstrated in its realisation; not just in resolving the brief, but in the contribution to the city – in massing, composition and the generosity of the public route through the grand stepped atrium space. This architectural skill extends beyond the cityscape through to the detailed care taken in the organisation of student spaces, encouraging social interaction across disciplines, to the considered approach to materials and detailing.
photo © Reiach and Hall
New Glasgow City College – Building Information
Contractor: Sir Robert McAlpine
Structural Engineer: Arup
Landscape Architect: rankinfraser landscape architecture
Quality Surveyor: Sir Robert McAlpine / Sweet Group
M&E Engineer: FES with Hulley and Kirkwood
Acoustics: ARUP Acoustics
Fire Engineer: Jeremy Gardner Associates
Interiors: Graven
Signage: Studio LR
photo © Reiach and Hall
2 Apr 2017
RIAS Awards 2017 Shortlist News
Shortlisted building for RIAS Awards 2017.
27 May 2016
New photo from the south of the City of Glasgow College Building (not the Riverside Campus), due to complete this Summer:
photograph © Adrian Welch
New City of Glasgow College Campus Project
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Architecture in Strathclyde
New Campus Glasgow Development
University of Glasgow Advanced Research Centre
Website: City of Glasgow College
Comments / photos for the New City of Glasgow College – City Campus Building design by Michael Laird Architects / Reiach and Hall Architects page welcome.
