Woolfson Medical Building
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Facade on University Avenue
Gavin Frazer Download Original
Purpose-built medical teaching facility in Glasgow's historic centre
Located at the apex of a triangular site, the Woolfson Medical Building’s main entrance slips beneath a curved steel and glass double-skinned wall. Behind the glass, western red cedar blinds shade the internal space and provide a certain dynamism to the street façade.
A triple height triangular atrium forms the social core of the building, admitting light deep into the plan via a glass panel roof. This is supported on structural glass beams, spanning up to 15 metres, which cast dappled light across the white-rendered walls of the space.
Spilling into the atrium, a common room/café also opens to the north-west, onto a ‘hortus medicus’, a living catalogue of medicinal plants. The third side of the atrium is occupied by a cherry wood clad elliptical lecture theatre.
Data
- Begun: Oct 2001
- Completed: Jan 2003
- Floor area: 6,884m2
- Sectors: Education, Healthcare
- Total cost: £9M
- Tender date: May 2000
- Procurement: Scottish Building Contract with Quantities (April 1998 Revision)
- Address: Faculty of Medicine, Wolfson Medical School Building, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Reiach and Hall Architects
- Client: University of Glasgow
- Structural engineer: URS Corporation
- Facade engineer: Arup Facades
- Landscape architect: Gross Max
- Planning supervisor: Beattie Watkinson
- Main contractor: Costain
- M&E engineer: Hulley & Kirkwood Consulting Engineers
- Quantity surveyor: Turner and Townsend
Suppliers
- Tiling: A De Cecco
- M and E installations: Balfour Kilpatrick
- Concrete: Central Contractors
- Plumbing: J Crawford
- Screeds: Industrial Floor Treatments
- Roofing: Kelsey Roofing
- Solar blinds: Levolux AT
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