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1963 - Construction is completed. Staff and students move in. 1964 -The Leicester Engineering Building tops a poll in The Architects Journal to find the best building of the past ten years. 1965 -Stirling and Gowan receive the prestigious Reynolds Award from the American Institute of Architects for their work on the Engineering Building.
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The building is part of the Red Trilogy by James Stirling. Beginning in the late 1950s, the architect designed three university buildings featuring distinctly red materials: red bricks and red tiles. The Red Trilogy includes the Engineering Building, University of Leicester (1959–1963), the Faculty of History, University of ...
20 de ene. de 2020 · Engineering Building in Leicester Technical Information Architects: James Stirling & James Gowan Location: Leicester University, Leicester, England Client: University of Leicester Topics: Brick, Glass, Educational Architecture, Universities Style: Postmodernism Project Year: 1959-1963
For now, however, the Stirling and Gowan achievement can be thoroughly measured in their just-finished Engineering Building at Leicester University. Its design goes back to 1959, although it was occupied by students and faculty for the first time only in the fall of 1963, and its interior arrangements were still incomplete in certain details at ...
Opened in 1963 and considered one of the most important buildings from architectural point of view of its time, the Engineering Building of the University of Leicester, a project by architects James Stirling and James Gowan, is absolutely distinctive. It stands out among the oldest and newest parts of the campus, forming a third of the ...
Form and function. Built in 1959-63, the new building looked different from anything else planned for the campus. Professor Edward Parkes took the lead in specifying the functionality of the building which led to a unique design in order to satisfy the needs of the engineers.
Completed in 1963. Structural engineer: Frank Newby. Conservation upgrade 2013: Arup ( www. arup.com) The University of Leicester’s Engineering Building is an early example of Post-Modernist design and continues to inspire architects today.
