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RichE
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Original post by Lucilou101
Eeeeeeeek.


The old Maths building is now the new Stats building. The outside hasn't changed that much - though they have improved it somewhat - but the inside is lovely, brand new, and very welcoming.
Original post by RichE
The old Maths building is now the new Stats building. The outside hasn't changed that much - though they have improved it somewhat - but the inside is lovely, brand new, and very welcoming.


So the mathmos are still not talking to the stats boys and girls :tongue:
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Original post by nulli tertius
So the mathmos are still not talking to the stats boys and girls :tongue:


Other way around :tongue: The Statisticians were asked if they wanted to join the new Maths building and said no.

I think Stats have good reason, being a small department, to maintain a separate identity which would risk being lost within the larger maths building.
Original post by RichE
Other way around :P The Statisticians were asked if they wanted to join the new Maths building and said no.

I think Stats have good reason, being a small department, to maintain a separate identity which would risk being lost within the larger maths building.


I see.

So what is the best academic building built in Oxford between the Library at LMH in 1962

http://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/About-LMH/Virtual-tour/Library.aspx

and the Du Pre Music Room at St Hilda's in 1995?

Original post by Lawliettt
That's actually disgusting. Why is it mainly the maths departments who get the ugly buildings?

Are engineering buildings ugly too?


Yes - eg. Cambridge (although plans are afoot for a swanky new development in West Cambridge)
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The liverpool architecture building is ironically pretty worse than other faculty sites.
The Yousef Hameed building at the back of Christ's College, Cambridge is very very unmatching with the rest of the college

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Original post by redferry
Leeds:
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Vs potentially the ugliest uni building in existence
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Oh yes, that building :rofl:
Original post by jneill
Yes - eg. Cambridge (although plans are afoot for a swanky new development in West Cambridge)
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I quite liked Cambridge's Engineering department... no, it's not exactly pretty but it felt extremely authentic, particularly inside. Having said that, I love the West Cambridge site... lucky them!
Original post by redferry
Leeds:
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Although they are refurbishing it:
Original post by Plagioclase
I quite liked Cambridge's Engineering department... no, it's not exactly pretty but it felt extremely authentic, particularly inside. Having said that, I love the West Cambridge site... lucky them!


Let's say it's functional. :wink:

But a warren...

Original post by Duke Glacia
The Yousef Hameed building at the back of Christ's College, Cambridge is very very unmatching with the rest of the college

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Needs the piccies to do them justice :smile:

Compare the old stuff (First Court):


To the Typewriter (New Court) in all it's glory... in it's favour are ensuite rooms with sunny views.



(same architect as the lovely National Theatre on London's South Bank)
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Original post by Josb
I've worked and studied in 7 French and British unis. Enough to see the difference.


Have you also noticed how French unis are practically free and give basically everyone access to some of the greatest specialists in their fields? L'université Paris 4, for instance, is among the top 100 for humanities worldwide. Paris 1's philosophy department is considered one of the best in the world. All that for free.

Don't get me wrong, I know there's a lot of not-so-great things about French universities, but don't diss just because of the looks and 'campus experience' thing. Holding a degree from la Sorbonne is probably one of the reasons why I was accepted for a PhD at a Russell Group uni, which I might not be able to go to should I not get funding.
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UCL.

From this and this

to this

(Chemistry building). It repulses me every time I have the displeasure of passing it and it's literally a road away...
Edinburgh Uni.

Goes from this:


To the stunning James Clerk Maxwell building for maths and physics:



Honestly, do unis just dump the bad buildings on maths/physics students cause they think they don't care about how things look? :laugh:
Original post by chopinfan
Edinburgh Uni.

Goes from this:


To the stunning James Clerk Maxwell building for maths and physics:



Honestly, do unis just dump the bad buildings on maths/physics students cause they think they don't care about how things look? :laugh:


This just makes me sad :frown: i need a lovely maths building !!

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Original post by Lawliettt


Are engineering buildings ugly too?


Yes, but they have more excuse.

I posted the really ugly Oxofrd engineering building earlier in the thread.

Engineering students and researchers do use equipment and do practicals.

There are questions of floor loadings, height clearances, lifting points, elf n'safety increasing since the buildings were built, cooling plant.

Many of them were built in the 1960s but most of them have gained barnacles by way of pipes, ducts and vents.
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Original post by Stéphane
Have you also noticed how French unis are practically free and give basically everyone access to some of the greatest specialists in their fields? L'université Paris 4, for instance, is among the top 100 for humanities worldwide. Paris 1's philosophy department is considered one of the best in the world. All that for free.

Don't get me wrong, I know there's a lot of not-so-great things about French universities, but don't diss just because of the looks and 'campus experience' thing. Holding a degree from la Sorbonne is probably one of the reasons why I was accepted for a PhD at a Russell Group uni, which I might not be able to go to should I not get funding.

Professors are not better in the UK, but as far as I know, 3 hours lectures in 300+ theatres are not as prevalent as in French unis.

The main problem is the rest: no student bar, no society, no bank, no shop, no restaurant, no museum, the library closed on Sunday and Saturday evening and after 19:00 during the week, ugly buildings, terrible and catastrophic administration, under-qualified staff, terrible internet system and website, poor communication, no recruiting fair, etc.

World rankings focus on research output; student experience is not considered. So the Sorbonne could be 1st in the world, I wouldn't change my statement.
I would have preferred to pay as much as them, and have a real university experience.
Original post by chazwomaq
Cambridge. From this:



to this:



It's not a university building, but it was designed by members of the Architecture department.


Have you seen all of Churchill college? It's revolting.
I've found one!

A drop dead gorgeous mathematics department in the UK.

Greenwich's maths department is in Queen Mary Court at the Old Royal Naval College (back left in the picture)



Whether this is anything to do with the Dept of Mathematics being part of the Faculty of Architecture, Computing and the Humanities, I do not know, There aren't many university faculties that are responsible for tuition in all of maths, law and professional dance

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