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a unified set of architectural design principles. This is about respecting and recognising the parkland and developing a coherent campus with distinctive buildings, and establishing a route linking the new campus area with the historic Gilbert Scott buildings. When the university moved from Glasgow’s High Street to Gilmorehill in the 1870s, the neo-Gothic towers and buildings by Gilbert Scott were part- funded by private donation and small businesses in the West of Scotland. Within this framework, which involved


extensive consultation in 2016, there are separate plans for each individual site including the creation of a new centre- piece city square on the Infirmary site. In May 2016, planning permission was made for the masterplan which was approved in February 2017. Principal and Vice-Chancellor


Professor Anton Muscatelli, said at the time: “We are delighted that Glasgow City Council has endorsed our ambitious plan which we believe will be a major economic driver for the city and for Scotland as well as underpin this university’s world-leading position.” An initial £430 million is being spent


over the next five years on the first phase. It is part of a wider £1 billion investment which includes refurbishing and improving the existing university estate. “This will be one of the biggest


of Glasgow become blurred or ‘porous’, meaning that people can easily come and go. The initial steps in 2012 involved the university buying the 14-acre site of the infirmary and demolishing the old hospital buildings, including its 1970s hospital block, although some historic Glasgow buildings are being kept and refurbished on the Church Street side, including the Tennent Institution and the MacGregor Buildings, which will be part of the enhanced Western Gateway to the new campus. The Gilmorehill Campus


Development Framework was approved by Glasgow City Council in 2014 and guides the development with


educational infrastructure projects in Scotland’s history and is certainly the biggest development undertaken by this University since it moved to Gilmorehill 150 years ago,” said the Principal. The concept is informed by the need


to make connections, bringing the university’s colleges and departments together, and bringing the city into the heart of the university. The masterplan for the Western site promotes the connection between the new square and the existing campus with a ‘permeable network of connective routes and space’, designed to allow people to move freely through the new quarter. After the clearance and remediation of


the Western Infirmary site, the first phase involves the construction of several new buildings around the square and the landscaping of the public realm.


The first building is the new Learning


and Teaching Hub which will link into the Boyd Orr building on University Avenue. Planning permission for the L&T Hub, designed by a team led by HLM architects, was granted in December. It opens in 2019 and will deliver a 500-seater raked lecture theatre, four flat- floored lecture theatres and 1,000-plus spaces for learning. This flagship will be a creative environment, combining flexible study and social learning space with multi-styled and technology-enabled teaching. Around-the-clock access will ensure students have the best possible opportunity to succeed regardless of background or circumstance. The Research Hub, designed by HOK


architects, will provide the university with a large-scale space devoted to interdisciplinary research across science, technology, social science and the arts. It will be unique in providing access to researchers with the opportunity to escape from academic silos that currently constrain such collaborations. The university wants this hub to be


able to address existing and future global problems in new and imaginative ways. It will also be home to an ‘Innovation Accelerator’ space. This environment will provide office and laboratory facilities for spin-outs, entrepreneurs and the co-location of corporate research and development teams. The first phase also includes an


Institute of Health and Wellbeing, tackling the public health issues of Glasgow and beyond; a new home for the Adam Smith Business School, including space to grow the postgraduate population; a base for the College of Arts including new performance art space; a building for research into chronic diseases; and the upgrade of the university’s chemistry building, the Joseph Black Building. This will be followed by new


teaching and research space for engineering and an Innovation Quarter on Church Street to improve engagement with local industry and promote creation of new companies. Through this there will be plenty of opportunities for Glasgow’s progressive businesses to become involved.


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