| 词条 | Attenborough Building |
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The Attenborough Building is the tallest building on the campus of the University of Leicester, and houses arts and humanities departments.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} The building comprises three distinct elements: an 18-storey towerblock containing 270 offices and tutorial rooms; a low-rise building, known within the University as the Attenborough Seminar Block, containing seminar rooms and computing facilities; and an underground area housing two large lecture theatres and the University Film Theatre{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}}. It was designed by Arup Associates and constructed 1968–70 with Ove Arup as the chief engineers.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} The university's development plan at the time called for two other similar towers, but these were never built.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} The building was named after Frederick Attenborough, who was principal of the then University College 1931–1951, and father of Richard and David Attenborough.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} At the time of the opening ceremony, Frederick was old and frail, so the building was opened on his behalf by his youngest son John.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} Until the renovations of 2005, a portrait of Frederick hung in the foyer.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} The tower reaches a height of 52 metres, making it one of the tallest buildings in the city.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} It is constructed with a concrete frame, cast in-situ, and clad with pre-cast concrete panels.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} The slanting aluminium-framed windows protrude outwards at the bottom to aid draught-free ventilation throughout the year.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} Each floor consists of three leaves of space containing the offices.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} These are separated by the central lobby and service area, which contains a staircase, lift. It was built with a paternoster lift, but this was closed in December 2017 as maintenance had become too expensive.[1] The lowest two levels of the tower house a plant room with a boiler that serves half of the entire university campus.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} The University's hilltop location makes the top floor of the tower one of the best vantage points in the city, to the extent that the University have fixed a notice at the base of the tower warning tourists that it is not open for the public "to view the city from a height".{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} The top floor currently houses offices for the research students of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, and formerly contained music practice rooms, including a full-size grand piano, until it was moved out on 29 March 2007.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} In high winds, the top of the tower can be felt to sway significantly.{{dubious|date=May 2013}}{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} The seminar block includes the main entrance to the building.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} It is connected to the second floor of the tower by a covered bridge.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} It contains small teaching rooms on four levels, including one basement level.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} During the summer of 2005, the block underwent significant refurbishment, including work to install a lift to make the building conform to the Disability Discrimination Act – previously, access to the different levels of the seminar block was by staircase only.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} While the base of the tower uses yellow-brown brick seen in other buildings on campus, the seminar block features a concrete finish that more closely matches Denys Lasdun's adjacent brutalist Charles Wilson Building.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} In front of the main entrance is a raised piazza, beneath which are the subterranean lecture theatres.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} There are two lecture theatres, seating 204 and 96 people respectively.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} The third room was previously a proscenium theatre, and was used by the Leicester University Theatre (LUT) society for their performances.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} In 2003, the theatre was converted into the 144-seat University Film Theatre, featuring a projection screen and surround sound system, in preparation of the launch of a new Film Studies degree.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} The film theatre is also used by the students' Film Society, Science Fiction and Fantasy Society and Anime and Manga Society.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} The building should not be confused with the Attenborough Arts Centre, which is located on the opposite side of University Road, adjacent to the University's Medical Sciences Building.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} Thoughts on the buildingDue to its unusual design, it has been compared by Leicester residents to a giant "cheese grater".[2] {{Cquote|...eighteen monotonous storeys, prickly with window units angled out from top to bottom of the pre-cast concrete panels, a feature more successful inside than out.|||Nikolaus Pevsner[3]}}References1. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-42339097 |title=University closes rare lift 'with a heavy heart' |work=BBC News |date=13 December 2017 |accessdate=4 February 2019}} 2. ^{{cite book|last1=Richards|first1=Simon|title=Architect knows best : environmental determinism in architecture culture from 1956 to the present|date=2012|publisher=Ashgate|location=Farnham|isbn=978-1-4094-3922-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eeqwr8VzdvUC|accessdate=10 August 2015}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Pevsner|first1=Nikolaus|last2=Williamson|first2=Elizabeth|title=Leicestershire and Rutland|date=1985|publisher=Yale University Press|page=255|edition=2nd (revised)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYlQ6DJdJ4AC|accessdate=10 August 2015}} External links{{Commons category|Attenborough Tower, University of Leicester}}
4 : 1970 establishments in England|Buildings and structures in Leicester|Towers completed in 1970|University of Leicester |
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