1965
The Chemistry building, the upper floors of which are occupied by the Mathematics department pending the erection of a new Physics and Mathematics building, was occupied in 1965, but will not be finally completed until a second lecture theatre and more lecturers' and research rooms are added at a later stage. It consists of a tower block of eleven floors, together with a two-storey wing containing the lecture theatre and the central boiler house, which will ultimately serve the whole site. As in the Animal Nutrition building, the lines and detail of the structure are simple. The vertical members of the reinforced concrete frame have been exposed externally and emphasised by colouring, and curtain walling, glazed with coloured glass to cill levels and with clear glass above on each floor, has been used to clad the facades between the structural columns. The vertical lines are thus strengthened, but the effect is marred by the proportions of the tower, which despite its great height appears somewhat squat.
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