Jump to content

Bute Building

Coordinates: 51°29′11″N 3°10′58″W / 51.48652°N 3.18264°W / 51.48652; -3.18264
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Deb (talk | contribs) at 15:35, 18 March 2020 (minor expansion with refs). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Bute Building

The Bute Building (Template:Lang-cy) is a Cardiff University building in Cathays Park, Cardiff, Wales. It houses the Welsh School of Architecture and the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]

The neoclassical building was designed by architects Percy Thomas and Ivor Jones, who won a competition in 1911 to design a building for Cardiff Technical College.[2] The foundations of the building were laid in 1913 and the building opened in 1916.[3][4] The building has six Roman Doric columns in the front of the building and includes the Birt Acres Lecture Theatre[5][6] The design has been called "disappointingly conventional"[7]

After the Technical College moved out in 1961, the Bute Building became home to the Cardiff University School of Architecture. It also contained a library, the Bute Library.[8]

The UK's largest Sky Dome, an artificial sky 8 metres in diameter run by the School of Architecture and used for daylight modelling and sun-path studies, is located in the basement of the building.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Bute Building". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  2. ^ "Thomas, Sir Percy Edward (1883–1969)". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  3. ^ "The companion guide to Wales By David Barnes". Google Book Search. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  4. ^ "INDIN 2009 24–26th June 2009, Cardiff UK". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Archived from the original on 24 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  5. ^ "Technical College; Bute Building; University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, Cathays Park, Cardiff". Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  6. ^ "Pool Room 1.61, Birt Acres Lecture Theatre, Bute Building". Cardiff University. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  7. ^ John Newman (1995). Glamorgan: Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan. Yale University Press. p. 114. ISBN 0-14-071056-6.
  8. ^ Dic Mortimer (15 October 2014). Cardiff The Biography. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-4456-4251-2.
  9. ^ "Cardiff school reaches for the artificial sky". Architects' Journal. 25 March 1999.



51°29′11″N 3°10′58″W / 51.48652°N 3.18264°W / 51.48652; -3.18264

Stub icon

This article about a Welsh building or structure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bute_Building&oldid=946174285"