New College of Arts Building Design Team Announced

‌The design team for the University of Glasgow's new College of Arts building has been appointed, it was announced today (5 February 2018). A team led by HawkinsBrown Architects has been selected as the winner after a rigorous competition process from a shortlist of six teams and over 20 applications. All six design teams made public presentations and took part in a Q&A session at an event on 1 November 2017 to which all members of the College were invited. Professor Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh, Vice Principal and Head of the College of Arts, said: "Our vision is to create a place that stimulates and supports critical thinking, innovative learning, engaging teaching, and world-class research. The new building will also provide a range of cultural and learning opportunities for our local community and the city of Glasgow as a whole. "As well as offering an outstanding place to think, learn, teach and collaborate, our aspiration is that this building will support the health and wellbeing of our staff and students. "The HawkinsBrown team demonstrated an excellent understanding of our brief to develop a creative thinking space which will act as an inspiration for the Arts and Humanities.