Dunelm House, Durham Students' Union

The building features heavy angled facades of concrete synonymous with the brutalist style of the time. The roof is covered with large interlocking precast concrete u-units that form a broken roofline above the eaves.

The mullions are positioned forward of the building face to all bar one of the external facades. On the riverside elevation the mullions are set back from the building face contained within the wall depth.

The main circulation space and staircase, that links all five levels of the building, runs in a straight line creating a stepped internal street from the entrance at the upper level to the main dance hall at the lower.

The feeling of the street is enhanced by the repetition of the concrete walls from the outside in. Varying staircase widths and a high ceiling admits clerestory light throughout the space.

The building connects to the Kingsgate Bridge opened two years earlier, also designed by Ove Arup.