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The 1937 Library Reading Room. With the growth of the University College of Swansea in the 1920s the old library based in Singleton Abbey was no longer suitable. [1] A competition was held in 1934 and was won by the London architect Verner O. Rees who designed other university libraries including the now-demolished University of Birmingham Library which was constructed in 1959. [2]
Swansea University (Welsh: Prifysgol Abertawe) is a public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, [ 4 ] as the fourth college of the University of Wales .
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The old Swansea Central Library in Swansea, Wales, was a public lending and reference library in Alexandra Road, in the city centre. The former library, a late 19th-century Grade II listed building , is now occupied by Swansea Metropolitan University's Welsh School of Architectural Glass .
The Modern Architecture building was designed by Norman Thomas of the Percy Thomas Partnership in the late 1950s under the guidance of the university's Principal John Fulton. The building is a large H-plan block projecting wings and a glazed curtain wall of 17 bays to a taller central block, faced mainly in brown brick. [ 2 ]
The building was conceived by Professor Florence Mockeridge, head of Biology Department and was designed by the Percy Thomas Partnership in the 1950s as part of the campus development. [2]
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