MacLaurin Building (1966, 1978)

Architect: Alan J. Hodgson

This building consists of several wings of offices, classrooms, and laboratories, rising to a maximum height of five storeys. Built of reinforced concrete, it has an exterior finish of concrete and coloured brick facings, but is distinguished by the wooden window hoods are both decorative and functional. Maclaurin was the University's most bold piece of Expressionist architecture. It utilized Corbusier's concrete stilts to lift up the massive concrete built from its site, proving open people spaces within its open and glazed concourses. The Music Wing added in 1978, also by Hodgson, has respected and extended the original design vocabulary which is marked by a precise attention to design and craft detail. Originally planned an "Education-Arts" facility, the building at first accommodated the Faculties of Education along with some humanities and Fine Arts although today it houses only Education.