most unique halls of residence in the uk?

Forgot about Sprinfield and Airlie Place! I know they were used as student accommodation last year for people who were moving into new seabraes. They were both pretty interesting though. Houses converted into halls kind of? As far as I know they aren't being used as accommodation anymore and they were only used as overflow last year, and weren't advertised as residences! Dundee uni has too much accommodation as it is.. Theyre advertising for 2nd and 3rd years to go back living in halls.

Oh yes...Estudines. I miss Christine

Greenwich are pretty special too:

;yikes; Wow!

It's the old Royal Naval College, designed by Christopher Wren in the 18th century. It's easily as spectacular as anything at Oxbridge.

It's the old Royal Naval College, designed by Christopher Wren in the 18th century. It's easily as spectacular as anything at Oxbridge.

Unsurprisingly, as it was built by the same person- Cf. Trinity's Wren library

All of the unis that people are finding very spectacular- Greenwich, RHUL, etc., are old or based on old buildings. Are we just awed by the grandeur of age?

Unsurprisingly, as it was built by the same person- Cf. Trinity's Wren library

All of the unis that people are finding very spectacular- Greenwich, RHUL, etc., are old or based on old buildings. Are we just awed by the grandeur of age?

All of the unis that people are finding very spectacular- Greenwich, RHUL, etc., are old or based on old buildings. Are we just awed by the grandeur of age?

Stirling are beside a mountain and a lake:

Greenwich is certainly a contender for the most spectacular university building in the country. A real shame that it has such a small history department, they could have made it a great university

I'd say no. For one, a vital component of modernism in architecture was built around rejecting artifice and decoration and instead focusing on function. Moreover, we have often failed to see projects of the scale of, say, Greenwich, undertaken in more modern styles, and similarly the same degree of funding has been absent for academic buildings.

There's also the possibility that we simply associate universities with age and tradition. We often speak contemptuously of 'new universities', and respect the 'ancients' - perhaps we carry these same prejudices over into architecture.

I don't know about nowadays, but they certainly have a long history as halls. My brother in law lived in Springfield back in the 90s, and I know Airlie was halls at least as long ago as the 60s.

I think the plan is to convert Airlie into offices etc, and the idea for Springfield always seems to have been 'leave it and wait til it's falling down, then hopefully the listed buildings people will let us use the land to stick something far more boring on'. Shame really.

Another good historic hall of residence: Chalmers Hall on the High Street, now derelict except for the KFC and Greggs on the ground floor. That'd have looked quite cool back in the day.