Works continue with the preparation for the construction of the new £60 million Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre GEIC and the demolition of the Faraday Undergraduate Building and link bridge on the North Campus. Gone is the low lying Chemistry Building – it’s mosaics now almost hidden in intemperate storage at the base of the Faraday Building. Turn around and there’s the Pariser Building. This is a maquette for the unlisted mural in the lobby of the Renold Building.

It was the first of its type in the UK – an entire building to house lecture theatres and seminar rooms. It was one of a suite of white concrete structures on the UMIST campus in Manchester. Moving down the road a ways in search of an education, we encounter the UMIST Campus 1962-68 Cruikshank and Seward.īut first we hit a concrete, not brick, a concrete wall, a barrier with a barrier, encased in green metal mesh, shrouded in leafy trees.Īnthony Holloway Screen Wall 1966 Chandos Hall – demolished 2019