Dundee, Nethergate, University Of Dundee, Tower Building And War Memorial
Faculty Building (20th Century), War Memorial (20th Century) (1972)
Site Name Dundee, Nethergate, University Of Dundee, Tower Building And War Memorial
Classification Faculty Building (20th Century), War Memorial (20th Century) (1972)
Alternative Name(s) University Of Dundee War Memorial
Canmore ID 175218
Site Number NO32NE 45
NGR NO 3980 2988
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/175218
- Council Dundee, City Of
- Parish Dundee (Dundee, City Of)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
Modern movement tower by the Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall practice (1957-8).
Publication Account (1997)
The most fully developed example of Matthew's rubbly, timber-clad Modernity of the 1950s, before new interpretations of Functionalism began to surface in his office in the early '60s. One of the first build realisations of multi-storey tower blocks in Scotland, this group adds an informal but urbane vertical punctuation to Perth Road. The tower chiefly contains departmental and administrative accomodation, including the nascent University of Dundee's Senate Room; the lower spur contained the University library. (Fig. 4.69).
Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75', (1997).
Photographic Survey (16 September 2010)
Photographed by RCAHMS on behalf of the Buildings of Scotland.
