Impressive campus architecture
I posted earlier this year about continuing investment in university buildings, including a rather bizarre campus development in China. Universities are really about people, not buildings. But environments for learning and research matter. There are some pretty special university campuses around. Although a Times Higher Education piece in 2014 highlighted some impressive buildings in the UK, it does seem that most of the best examples are outside the UK as this article shows.
Here are a few examples:
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City
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Education City, on the outskirts of Doha, Qatar
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Issam Fares Institute, at the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
These are all fabulous. Of course universities trying to do similar things in the UK are castigated. As Ken Shuttleworth found when designing these great buildings for the University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus:
Runner up in the ‘carbuncle of the year’ competition was the prize.
There are some fantastic historical buildings around but there must be other examples of outstanding recent architecture on British campuses?
