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Sapientia urbs conditur - A City is Built on Wisdom, a photo by Melodysparks (Chris Preedy) on Flickr.

Trent Building Nottingham University

The Trent Building serves as one of the main administrative buildings of the University of Nottingham. London architect Morley Horder created the Trent Building in the classical architectural style. The building is topped by a campanile (clock tower), 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 in 1928, and 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'.

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.

University Park Campus, to the west of the Nottingham city centre, is the 330 acre historic home of The University of Nottingham. Set around its famous lake and clock-tower and with extensive parkland greenery, the campus is widely regarded as one of the most attractive in the country. University Park has won numerous awards for its architecture and landscaping, and has been named the greenest campus in the country thanks to a new Green Flag Award. The 2009 award is the seventh in a row for University Park – more than have ever been awarded to a UK university over successive years. Nottingham has several additional campuses, all of which share similar design features to the original, being "garden campuses" situated around a lake with extensive greenery (with the exception of Sutton Bonington campus, which predates the creation of University Park Campus).

By the generosity of Sir Jesse Boot, presented 35 acres (140,000 m2) to the City of Nottingham in 1921. Boot stipulated that while part of the Highfields site, lying southwest of the city, be devoted to the University College Nottingham, the rest should provide a place of recreation for the residents of the city.

Further reading about the University can be found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Nottingham

The university website can be found here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/

Comments

[aadarshinah.livejournal.com]

beautiful. absolutely gordgeous.

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Thank you. The whole campus is and its open to the public all year around. The Uni itself is one of the leading ones in the country and in the top 75 l think in the world

[aadarshinah.livejournal.com]

i'd love to go to it, knowing nothing else about it, because of that pic alone

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Click on the links in the blurb it tells you about the place. Might do a tour around there soon and take more photos. Got lots already on my flickr pages. Click on the picture it takes you to my flickr site. Type University in the search melodysparks photostream then all my photos of the campus and its park should be available

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Professor Einstein actually spent time there in the Physics department. They still have a blackboard with his work on it.

[aadarshinah.livejournal.com]

:D

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Oh wow l just read the blurb on the wiki site. Some interesting Alumni including foreign royalty and CEOs.

Ya know what, because it is one of the leading research unis that grants a lot of money lm sure even Rodney wouldnt not consider reading any offers from there. Oh wow just imagine if he spent a simester or two here LOL.

[aadarshinah.livejournal.com]

:D well, I already have his background set for the AJ verse, but there's going to be some university-visiting going on in the future, so....

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

When is it set. Read the links for info. I can provide sny logistical info like location and where stuff is should you take him there. I pass the uni daily on my way to work. Its also connected to the biggest teaching hospital in the Uk which incidentially has a leading genetics and bioscience department, look up university hospital Queens Medical Centre thats just across the A52.

[aadarshinah.livejournal.com]

...I'll definatley have to consider that. I know they'll be visiting Boston and Madrid this season. I may be able to find a way to fit Nottingham in there, at the very least peripherally.

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Thats useful the airport to Spain is only down the road from the university about 20mins drive however they would have to then go on to Birmingham or Manchester for flights to the US

[aadarshinah.livejournal.com]

Madrid would be the last stop on the trip. Boston would be one of the first (after Vancouver), so it works out well.

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

In part of the Wiki info it said Nottm Uni was on par with Stanford. Something about leading CEOs or something. I never went to Uni so l dont know. I went straight to work at 16 when l finished seniors but l did go to night school at College over 4 year to study Desk Top Publishing and Integrated Business Technology

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Theres a couple of vids on the Unis actual website one shows places in Nottinhgam if you want to see what my hometown looks like. For your curiosity that is

[aadarshinah.livejournal.com]

:D

I'm still about 6 instalments out from that point, so we'll see then