Renold Building

Renold Building

The Renold Building is a university building in Manchester. It was opened on November 23rd 1962 for the Manchester College of Science and Technology (later UMIST) as part of a major expansion of its campus in the 1960s. The architect was W.A.Gibbon of the firm of Cruikshank and Seward. The foundation stone was laid on June 24th 1960 by Sir Charles Renold J.P. LL.D (1883-1967), Vice President of the college, and chairman of the planning and development committee, after whom it was named. [Looking Back - The Renold Building, Unilife, vol 3 issue 8, p20, 2nd May 2006 [http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/unilife/volume3-issue8.pdf] ]

Overview

The building, which is made of concrete, consists of a two-storey base supporting a six-storey tower. There is a large glass-sided stair tower on the side. Inside is an entrance hall on two levels with a large mural titled Metamorphosis, by Victor Pasmore.

The Renold Building contains a number of lecture halls of differing sizes, including a 500-seat theatre, two 300-seat theatres, and five 140-seat theatres. According to Pevsner's Architectural Guide, "The idea was to provide a central facility for rooms that would otherwise have been dispersed amongst separate departmental buildings. This was a new initiative in British academic planning at that time."

The building also contains seminar rooms and exhibition spaces. It overlooks a green space in the centre of what was the UMIST Campus which was originally a bowling green. For this reason a bar in the Renold Building was named the Bowling Green Tavern. The building no longer has a bar, but instead has a Rock music-themed cafe [Food on campus, Rock cafe [http://www.foodoncampus.manchester.ac.uk/outlets/cafes/sackvillestreetsite/rockcafe/] ] . Although the building has attracted some criticism, in January 2008 it narrowly missed out on being awarded listed statusFact|date=May 2008.

Sources

* "Pevsner Architectural Guides — Manchester", Clare Hartwell, ISBN 0-14-071131-7

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