McCance Building (Glasgow) | university

United Kingdom / Scotland / Glasgow / Richmond Street, 16
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Built in 1963-64, it was part of a joint initiative between the then Royal College of Science and Technology and Glasgow Corporation to redevelop the Richmond Street site. A row of terraced houses, tenements and even a church had been cleared in the late 1950s, and the idea was to give the College a new library and central admin building. It fitted right in with the Corporation's grand regeneration scheme - the rest of the complex was purely commercial, encompassing a covered car park, a row of shops - and a multi-storey office building, which of course was the Livingstone Tower and ended up becoming part of the University anyway.

Named after Andrew McCance - who was both a senior executive of Colville's (a local steelmaking company) and a visiting professor of the Royal College and played a key role (together with the then principal Sir Sam Curran) in its metamorphosis into the University of Strathclyde. So therefore, the central administration building bears his name (McCance would be honoured a second time when the new Civil Engineering building erected four years later bore the name "Colville") The Andersonian Library lived in the McCance building in what is now Registry until 1980, when it moved up to the Curran Building.

Today the nerve centre of Strathclyde - it's where all the admin functions are - Registry, Human Resources, Finance, and of course, the Principal's office. The senior management folks also have their own private corridor to the neighbouring Collins Building. The top floor is where some refugees from Arts and Social Science departments live (History, Politics etc...)

As with many buildings on the campus, it was originally supposed to be vacated, but as of 2023 is still in use, and this looks likely to be the case for the forseeable future.
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Coordinates:   55°51'40"N   4°14'40"W

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  • When a lecture in McCance 1 finishes with only 1 flight of stairs available, it becomes a heavy traffic jam when leaving the building.
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