St. Andrews University Art Building
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Projecting bays on the north front echo traditional bays of Scottish domestic buildings
Arts building for the University of St Andrews
The buildings is the first addition to the central St Andrews campus in more than 30 years, adding 2,790m² of teaching and office space to the university’s stock.
The exterior facades acknowledge, without imitating, the surroundings. The height continues the line of the library and townhouse; and the warm stone matches the concrete of the library.
It is four storeys high, corresponding to the height of both the library and the 19th-century townhouse. The vertical, projecting bays along the building’s north front are an equivalent to the traditional bays of Scottish domestic buildings.
Data
- Begun: Jun 2005
- Completed: 2006
- Floor area: 3,187m2
- Sector: Education
- Total cost: £5.3M
- Tender date: Mar 2005
- Procurement: Scottish Building Contract with Contractor's Designed Portion
- Address: 91 North Street, St Andrews, KY16 9AJ, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Reiach and Hall Architects
- Client: University of St Andrews
- Quantity surveyor: Gleeds
- Planning supervisor: University of St Andrews Estates
- Main contractor: Morrison Construction
- Electrical and Mechanical: Hulley
- Clerk of Works: Ken Fairbairn Associates
- Services engineer: Cundall Johnson
- Structural engineer: Cundall Johnson
Suppliers
- Ironmongery: Allgood
- Stonework: Watson Stonecraft
- Structural steelwork: RIM Fabrications
- Zinc cladding: Fowler McKenzie
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