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Graham Hills Building
The Graham Hills Building is a major building on Strathclyde University's John Anderson Campus, located in Glasgow, Scotland. The structure, originally known as Marland House, was completed in 1959 by the General Post Office (GPO) and was acquired by the university from the GPO's successor – British Telecom (BT) in 1987.
The building is best known for the "Strathclyde Wonderwall", the largest wall mural in the city and was briefly the largest in the UK following its completion in 2014.
In 1991 it was renamed for the outgoing principal Sir Graham Hills who retired that year.
Marland House was designed by the Edinburgh architectural firm Arthur Swift and Partners and was built at a cost of £1m. Originally designed as office complex primarily for the Telephones division of the GPO, it won a Civic Trust Design Award in 1960. The Owners (Capital & Counties Property Company) named it Marland House, derived from a pub known as Marland Bar, which stood adjacent to the site prior to the slum clearances of the 1950s. (The pub itself was later renamed "The Right Half" and was eventually closed and demolished in the 1990s) The building was mainly occupied and used by the clerical & engineering teams of the organization along with other Government Departments such as the DSS, Inland Revenue and Pneumoconiosis Board, with a front counter/sales office enabling Post Office Telecoms/BT customers to conduct business during daytime for many years.[better source needed]
By the early 1980s, Post Office Telecommunications was now British Telecom (BT) and the new company sought to leave many of its older buildings. However, the original 42-year lease on Marland House was signed in Scotland making it subject to Scots Law and as a result, omitting to contain a statement that it was executed under English Law meant that the initially quoted rental rates remained secured for the entire period of the lease with no option for increasing them. As the structure deteriorated over time, the owners' financial responsibilities compared to the rental they were receiving became a burden and it was eventually sold to BT in advance of the maturity of the lease. The University of Strathclyde had long expressed its desire to acquire the building to support its own campus expansion plans, and pressed forward and acquired the building from BT, which was bought for a nominal £1 on the condition that the University would take over the maintenance and repair of the structure, and that BT was allowed to occupy parts of it for another five years until they could move out completely, while the university converted it into an academic building.
The building was formally renamed after Sir Graham Hills in 1991, at the end of his tenure as Principal and Vice Chancellor. The conversion process lasted nearly ten years, with some BT staff still occupying parts of the East Wing (40 George Street) until 1992–93.
The building itself is divided into four independent, unconnected wings which forces students to leave and re-enter the building from another side to access one of the other wings. – this layout dated back to the Marland House era when non-GPO/BT tenants of the building needed to be segregated from the rest. There is a central circulation space in the heart of the building which joined all four wings together, which was taken out of use for many years. The primary use of the building is for use in tutorials due to the large number of small rooms which are ideal for small groups of students. The small rooms are able to seat around 10 – 15 students which encourages learning in group and allows for more individual attention from tutors. That being said, several lectures of moderate student sizes are being held in The Graham Hills building, most notably ones organized by the faculty of Business and Administration. The designated lecture halls in Graham Hills can hold up to three hundred students each. The building also contains several computer labs in which many online tests are held and provides facilities for students to complete assignments which require the use of computers. The labs are often used by the business school to hold its first year tests.
The building was originally constructed with eight lifts serving all nine levels, one for each of the Richmond Street and 50 George Street wings, two serving the east wing (40 George Street) and a group of four in the centre of the building which serve all wings. The building is not for any department in particular, instead it is used by a variety of academic service departments with labs for electrical engineers as well as computer labs for computer science students. Psychology students have their own floor as well for use in tutorials and lectures.
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Graham Hills Building
The Graham Hills Building is a major building on Strathclyde University's John Anderson Campus, located in Glasgow, Scotland. The structure, originally known as Marland House, was completed in 1959 by the General Post Office (GPO) and was acquired by the university from the GPO's successor – British Telecom (BT) in 1987.
The building is best known for the "Strathclyde Wonderwall", the largest wall mural in the city and was briefly the largest in the UK following its completion in 2014.
In 1991 it was renamed for the outgoing principal Sir Graham Hills who retired that year.
Marland House was designed by the Edinburgh architectural firm Arthur Swift and Partners and was built at a cost of £1m. Originally designed as office complex primarily for the Telephones division of the GPO, it won a Civic Trust Design Award in 1960. The Owners (Capital & Counties Property Company) named it Marland House, derived from a pub known as Marland Bar, which stood adjacent to the site prior to the slum clearances of the 1950s. (The pub itself was later renamed "The Right Half" and was eventually closed and demolished in the 1990s) The building was mainly occupied and used by the clerical & engineering teams of the organization along with other Government Departments such as the DSS, Inland Revenue and Pneumoconiosis Board, with a front counter/sales office enabling Post Office Telecoms/BT customers to conduct business during daytime for many years.[better source needed]
By the early 1980s, Post Office Telecommunications was now British Telecom (BT) and the new company sought to leave many of its older buildings. However, the original 42-year lease on Marland House was signed in Scotland making it subject to Scots Law and as a result, omitting to contain a statement that it was executed under English Law meant that the initially quoted rental rates remained secured for the entire period of the lease with no option for increasing them. As the structure deteriorated over time, the owners' financial responsibilities compared to the rental they were receiving became a burden and it was eventually sold to BT in advance of the maturity of the lease. The University of Strathclyde had long expressed its desire to acquire the building to support its own campus expansion plans, and pressed forward and acquired the building from BT, which was bought for a nominal £1 on the condition that the University would take over the maintenance and repair of the structure, and that BT was allowed to occupy parts of it for another five years until they could move out completely, while the university converted it into an academic building.
The building was formally renamed after Sir Graham Hills in 1991, at the end of his tenure as Principal and Vice Chancellor. The conversion process lasted nearly ten years, with some BT staff still occupying parts of the East Wing (40 George Street) until 1992–93.
The building itself is divided into four independent, unconnected wings which forces students to leave and re-enter the building from another side to access one of the other wings. – this layout dated back to the Marland House era when non-GPO/BT tenants of the building needed to be segregated from the rest. There is a central circulation space in the heart of the building which joined all four wings together, which was taken out of use for many years. The primary use of the building is for use in tutorials due to the large number of small rooms which are ideal for small groups of students. The small rooms are able to seat around 10 – 15 students which encourages learning in group and allows for more individual attention from tutors. That being said, several lectures of moderate student sizes are being held in The Graham Hills building, most notably ones organized by the faculty of Business and Administration. The designated lecture halls in Graham Hills can hold up to three hundred students each. The building also contains several computer labs in which many online tests are held and provides facilities for students to complete assignments which require the use of computers. The labs are often used by the business school to hold its first year tests.
The building was originally constructed with eight lifts serving all nine levels, one for each of the Richmond Street and 50 George Street wings, two serving the east wing (40 George Street) and a group of four in the centre of the building which serve all wings. The building is not for any department in particular, instead it is used by a variety of academic service departments with labs for electrical engineers as well as computer labs for computer science students. Psychology students have their own floor as well for use in tutorials and lectures.