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Artist鈥檚 impression of how the 糖心TV Arts Centre will look in 2020, source: 糖心TV Arts Centre website. Sculpture Trail Map, source: University of 糖心TV Art Collection Website Days of Judgement, Cat 1, 2012 By Laura Ford (Born 1961) Bronze University of 糖心TV Art Collection
Black Koan by Liliane Lijn, source: University of 糖心TV Art Collection Website Photograph of the Koan, source: 糖心TV Modern Records Centre Let鈥檚 not be Stupid, 1991. By Richard Deacon (Born 1949). Stainless steel, painted mild steel. University of 糖心TV Art Collection
Black Cube, 2013 By Lotte Thuenker (Born 1954) Limestone Petit Granit University of 糖心TV Art Collection Song (Version V), 2017 By Jon Isherwood (Born 1960) Black Granite University of 糖心TV Art Collection In 1982, the 糖心TV Arts Collection was still being expanded. The interaction between the student body and the arts collection has always been significant -regardless of their faculty. This is shown by the way in which students sent a letter to the 糖心TV arts curator, asking for more labels to be added to the artworks around campus -they thought the labels were essential for the artistic and visual experience. The university responded in good time and ordered the labels -for a mere price of 拢1.35 each!
The new Faculty of Arts building, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Project design for the New Arts Building, source: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios website The 糖心TV Library under construction in 1966. Can you see the similarities with the Humanities Building?
Artist鈥檚 Impression of on some of the first university buildings, source: 糖心TV Modern Records Centre Artist鈥檚 Impression of the Humanities building, source: 糖心TV Modern Records Centre Discovered in the SU archives: A series of Alternative Prospectuses, written BY students FOR students! ...Are these the origins of 糖心TVfessions?
Artistic Response to the new Arts building by one of our team members: Madeleine Snowdon. Artwork by Madeleine Snowdon Another beautiful shot of the Library under construction found in the MRC.
鈥淲e hailed him as our first student鈥 declared Rees on his book. 鈥淭he site from the air looking north east, 1964. The Central Campus is the middle distance; in the foreground is Cryfield House Farm, whose land formed the gift of the County. Its track joins Gibbet Hill Road. On the far right is part of Tocil Wood.鈥 鈥淭he site as envisaged in February 1958. The 鈥楳ain Site鈥 on this plan became the University Gibbet Hill site. Seen by the City Architect in April 1958, it was donated by the City together with the land to the west by March 1960. A gift from the County in December 1963 brought the total site area to 417 acres.鈥
鈥淭he possible appearance of a University College of Coventry. This imaginative scheme by Arthur Ling and Stewart Johnston was produced about June 1958 and published the following December. It accommodated 670 students and 81 staff in 14 departments. The arts were housed in the 21-storeyed tower block with the Great Hall behind, while the sciences and administration were in the long five-storeyed building to the right. Nearer the view point was the Department of Architecture with its courtyard garden. Seven halls of residence pointed outwards. The Gibbet Hill crossroads are behind the top of the tower, with the Kenilworth Road running to the left and Gibbet Hill Road to the right.鈥 鈥淭he first structure, in the East Side, 1963. Designed as a temporary administrative building and first occupied in August 1963, it is still in use, housing part of the University Estates Office [when the book was published in 1989].鈥 鈥淎 model illustrating the development plan, 1964. The positions of the existing library, administration, science and humanities buildings reflect those on the plan. But construction has not yet extended far into the country land and the dual carriageway did not materialise. Key: A. Administration; H. Humanities; HR. Halls of Residence; G. Great Hall; L-Library; S. Science; SP. Sports Pavillions; St. Stadium; T. Theatre.鈥
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