Campuses of the University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham operates from five campuses in Nottinghamshire and from two overseas campuses, one in Ningbo, China and the other in Semenyih, Malaysia.
The Ningbo campus was officially opened on 23 February 2005 by the then British Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, in the presence of Chinese education minister Zhou Ji and State Counsellor Chen Zhili. The Malaysia campus was the first purpose-built UK university campus in a foreign country and was officially opened by Najib Tun Razak on 26 September 2005. Najib Tun Razak, as well as being a Nottingham alumnus, was Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia at the time and has since become Prime Minister of Malaysia.
University Park Campus and Jubilee Campus are situated a few miles from the centre of Nottingham, with the small King's Meadow Campus nearby. Sutton Bonington Campus is situated 12 miles south of the central campuses, near the village of Sutton Bonington.
University Park Campus
University Park Campus is the main campus of the university. A few miles from the centre of Nottingham, the site is one of the largest university campuses in the United Kingdom, and home to the majority of the university's 43,561 students. The campus contains 12 halls of residence, of which the largest is Hugh Stewart Hall, as well as academic and administrative buildings. The campus contains 13 listed buildings.Gardens
Of particular note are the formal Jekyll Garden, allegedly designed by Gertrude Jekyll, next to Lenton and Wortley Hall; the walled Highfield Garden near the Trent Building, which is home to the national collection of Canna; and the Millennium Garden, formally opened on 4 July 2000. In addition there is extensive planting elsewhere on campus, particularly in lakeside Highfields Park. The campus also has a number of green roofs as part of the Garden in the Sky Project and University wide goal to be more sustainable. These can be found at The Orchard Hotel, Maths Building and George Green library.University Park Campus halls of residence
- Ancaster Hall
- Cavendish Hall
- Cripps Hall
- Derby Hall
- Florence Boot Hall
- Hugh Stewart Hall
- Lenton and Wortley Hall
- Lincoln Hall
- Nightingale Hall
- Rutland Hall
- Sherwood Hall
- Willoughby Hall
Notable buildings
Trent Building
The Trent Building serves as one of the main administrative buildings of the University of Nottingham. It also contains academic facilities, principally for the arts and social sciences.The foundation stone was laid on 14 June 1922 by Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane. London architect Morley Horder created the Trent Building in the classical architectural style. The building is topped by a campanile, is built of Portland stone and is protected as a grade II listed building. King George V and Queen Mary presided at the building's opening on 10 July 1928.
The building's Great Hall has hosted many distinguished visitors, including Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and Queen Elizabeth II.
The writer D. H. Lawrence described the building as looking like an "iced cake".
It gained its Trent Building name in 1953 when the adjacent Portland Building was opened.
The main buildings of the university's campuses in China and Malaysia are both modelled on University Park's iconic Trent Building. In the case of the China campus this includes an exact replica of the clock tower.
Hallward Library
The Hallward Library is the principal library of the University of Nottingham. It was designed by the architect Harry Faulkner-Brown and won the RIBA East Midlands Regional Award for Architecture prize in 1974. It is named after Dr Bertrand Hallward, first vice-chancellor of the university.The contractors were W.J. Simms, Sons and Cooke Ltd. Construction started in 1971 and it opened in December 1973. It was designed to hold 500,000 volumes and construction cost £805,000 .
It houses the university's arts, humanities, law and social sciences collections and a European Documentation Centre.
Portland Building
The Portland Building is faced with Portland stone but is actually named after William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland, who was the university's second chancellor.The plans for the building were drawn up in 1948 but post war restrictions on capital expenditure delayed the start of construction work until March 1953. It was opened by David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, Lord Chancellor, on 26 October 1956.
It houses the University of Nottingham Students' Union, Impact magazine, University Radio Nottingham and Nottingham Student Television.
Other notable buildings
- Coates Building, architect Basil Spence
- Chemistry Building architect Basil Spence and partners 1961
- Creative Energy Homes
- D.H. Lawrence Lakeside Pavilion, architects Marsh Grochowski 1998-2001
- Djanogly Arts Centre and Recital Hall, architect Graham Brown 1989-92
- East Midlands Conference Centre
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department Tower, architects Andrew Renton and Associates, 1963-65
- George Green Science Library, architects Andrew Renton and Associates, 1961-64.
- Highfield House built for Joseph Lowe by architect William Wilkins the Elder, 1797-8. Grade II listed
- Institute for Pharmaceutical Science, architects Pick Everard 1998–99
- Lenton Abbey, for James Green, the superintendent engineer of the Nottingham and Grantham Canal 1798-1800 Grade II listed
- Lenton Eaves, for Benjamin Walker Jnr, a lacemaker, 1875
- Lenton Firs, built 1800 for Thomas Wright Watson a Nottingham hosiery manufacturer, remodelled by Thomas Chambers Hine 1862, Evans and Jolley 1888, and Evans and Son 1904
- Lenton Grove, ca. 1825 for Francis Evans, a Nottingham attorney Grade II listed
- Lenton House, ca. 1800 built for Matthew Needham, a master hosier. Grade II listed
- Lenton House Lodge, ca. 1800. Grade II listed
- Lenton Hurst, built for William Goodacre Player by architects Arthur George Marshall and George Turner, 1896
- Lenton Mount, for William Sidney Hemsley, a lace and hosiery manufacturer by architect William Dymock Pratt 1906–07
- Lodges by Percy Morley Horder 1932. Both Grade II listed.
- Paton House, originally West Hill House for Samuel Herrick Sands JP by architects Evans and Jolley 1881
- Physics and Mathematics Building architect Basil Spence and partners 1961-63
- Pope Building, architect Basil Spence
- Redcourt, architects Martin and Hardy.
- School of Pharmacy, architects Renton Howard Wood Associates 1967
- Social Sciences and Education building, architect Donald McMorran 1960–61
- The Orchards, for Alfred Thomas Richard, managing director of Imperial Laundry of Radford Boulevard by architect William Dymock Pratt 1904
Jubilee Campus
The campus opened in 1999, and is located about a mile to the east of the main University Park Campus on the site of the former Raleigh Bicycle Company factory. The campus plan and the buildings for first phase of the campus were designed by the architects Michael Hopkins and Partners following selection through an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions and won the 2000 BCI Award for "Building of the Year" and the 2001 RIBA Journal Sustainability Award. The campus name derives from the fact that 1998 was the Golden Jubilee of the granting of the Royal Charter that made the university an independent degree-granting organisation.
Like the University Park Campus Jubilee has been constructed around an artificial lake and with similar green surroundings. The Hopkins buildings also contains many innovative environmental elements such as living roofs aiding storm drainage, insulation and promoting biodiversity, and solar panels. Particularly striking is the library, the Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Learning Resource Centre, a circular building situated in the middle of the lake with only one, spiraling, floor.
For the second phase of the campus, Make Architects were retained by the university. They produced a revised campus plan, which moved away from Hopkins' north–south orientation, and creates an east–west axis beyond the confines of the site. The first stage includes a group of three prominent buildings by the practice.
The new plan is centred on the Aspire sculpture, designed by Make Architects, which was the country's tallest piece of free-standing art until the construction of Orbit in 2012.
International House and the Amenity Building have facades in multiple shades of red terracotta, whereas the Gateway Building is covered in galvanized zinc shingles. Critical reception to Make's buildings for the second phase has been mixed. The new campus buildings were runner up for Building Design magazine's 2009 Carbuncle Cup.
The GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry is the UK's first carbon neutral laboratory. The lab is built from natural materials and opened on 27 February 2017. During the construction of the lab a large fire broke out on 12 September 2014 and burnt the building down, resulting in a delay of completion.
Jubilee Campus halls of residence
- Newark Hall – undergraduate, 400 students
- Southwell Hall – undergraduate, 200 students
- Melton Hall – postgraduate, 140 students