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North Glasgow College superstructure in progress
North Glasgow CollegeNorth Glasgow College
- Date: 2004 - 2007
- Architect: RMJM
- Client: North Glasgow College
- Location: Glasgow, UK
- Sector: Education
- Value: £26.0 million
The 16,900m² development will be home to a state-of-the-art learning resource centre, conference facilities and a fully equipped sports hall, providing a new social heart for the College’s campus for both students and the surrounding community.
Internally, the College departments will be rationalised around a central atrium space of the main building, which will allow natural light to flood the building to the ground floor. The atrium will provide the College with a new social heart which is home to a cafe area and where circulation routes cross. The new learning resource centre will be located on the ground and mezzanine levels and will be easily accessible and visible from the street. This is augmented by a large 4500m2 Workshop complex to the east and ancilliary buildings to the north.
The main building is being constructed as two parts formed in concrete with a post-tensioned floor slab. The workshop is designed as a steel building, with scope for future expansion built-in. The Campus is on a brownfield site, using part of the land previously occupied by the famous locomotive works which finally closed in 1965. The College is currently housed in the former administration building for the locomotive works on the other side of the road.