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Saltire Centre Building by BDP

Saltire Centre - Glasgow Caledonian University

BDP WINS CIVIC TRUST COMMENDATION FOR UNIVERSITY LEARNING CENTRE
13 Mar 2008

Saltire Centre : photo ©John Cooper/BDP

BDP has been awarded a Civic Trust Commendation for the Saltire Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University.
BDP was commissioned as architect, lighting designer and acoustic consultant by the University in 2002 for their five year campus redevelopment programme.

photographs © keith hunter

The Saltire Centre is the largest single new-build project commissioned by the University. It replaces an outmoded library with a landmark building that sits at the cutting edge of contemporary higher educational thinking.

The principle underlying the building concept is that ‘all learning starts with conversation’. Students are encouraged to learn from one another in a stimulating and appealing environment that ranges from formal and informal group areas, café spaces, incidental areas related to building circulation routes, through to silent ‘monk cells’. Learning space also extends onto terraced, south facing garden areas, providing the campus with much needed high quality, outdoor civic space.

The citation reads “This scheme has made good use of a difficult site between two existing building. A stimulating, non institutional building, it is a lively activity hub and focus of the university…Interesting, innovative and full of vitality, this scheme is popular with students, staff and the community alike”

photos © keith hunter

Saltire Centre - Building Information

Client: Glasgow Caledonian University
BDP: architect, lighting designer and acoustic consultant
Structural engineer: Struer Consulting Engineers
Mechanical & electrical engineer: Hulley & Kirkwood:
Cost consultant: CBA
Project Manager: Gleeds
Planning Supervisor: Beattie Watkinson
Contractor: Balfour Beatty
Cost: £15.5M

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