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18 Feb 2017
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University of Glasgow Masterplan, Scotland

Design: AECOM and 7N Architects
17th February 2017 ? Global infrastructure services firm AECOM and 7N Architects have secured Planning Permission in Principle consent from Glasgow City Council for their masterplan for the University of Glasgow.

The masterplan provides a development and placemaking framework for a significant expansion of the University?s Gilmorehill Campus on the site of the former Glasgow Western Infirmary in the heart of the West End of the city. It will porvide up to 85,000 m2 of learning, teaching and research space within a mixed use quarter, which will integrate the historic core of the campus with the surrounding neighbourhoods to the west and form a new frontage to Kelvingrove Park to the south. AECOM and 7N Architects collaborated on the design of the masterplan, which is focused on creating an environment that will strengthen the University?s position as one of the world?s leading research intensive universities. The placemaking approach uses the public realm as the spatial framework to cultivate social and intellectual interaction between colleges and stimulate collaborative learning and research. The AECOM-led team also includes Simpson and Brown, Muir Smith Evans and Spaces tha...