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Loading ...Chris Pomery notifies the Rubble Club of pending demolition of this library building at Thames Valley University. “Redevelopment under the “Heart of Slough” project, due I’m told to take place end 2009, will see Slough become the only British borough to give up its university.
The building is divided into ’served’ and ’servant’ spaces, a concept developed with the Lloyds Building.
I would love to salvage materials and fittings from this building – can anyone get me access? 07778210855
Frankly its demise is utterly disgusting. TVU have lied and withheld information from FOI responses. The library is a wonderful, inviting and tranquil place to study. Its the ultimate location for peaceful, productive and enjoyable work.
TVU’s closure of their Slough campus is a direct result of a cross party alliance of Labour, Liberal (yes the old Liberal Party) and Conservative councillors who want to flood the site with 1,600 high rise flats. I want to keep the entire site as a functioning and expanding university. Politically dedicated to public education I am in a minority amongst the town’s national political parties brain-dead morons masquerading as councillors.
Would really appreciate whatever help is available to rescue and preserve this wonderful building.
AND to keep Slough’s university as a going concern in our town of Slough.
Paul Janik
01753-208 111
Fax 01753-208 333
slough.party (at) gmail.com
Just had a look round this building. Well designed appointed and the build quality looks good. It is only 14 years old and it would be a travesty to destroy a building a perfectly good structure that some institution could make use of. Obviously council just sees a plot with lots of healthy kickbacks sorry investment in generic housing modules. There some issues with leaking roof but all buidlings require maintenance by the look of the plants growing out of the roof this has not been.
When are we going to protect the best of modern building of the 2oth C too much has been destroyed already.
This was a horrible building to work in. Although I’d be sorry to see it go because of purely sentimental reasons, I really cannot see any future use for it. It’s just a monument to the hubris of the new Vice-Chancellors of the New Universities of the early nineties. These institutions would have been far more useful to the British economy by remaining polytechnics and colleges of higher education where the accent was on high level vocational education. It’s sad that it’s to go after only 14 years but its nothing special; probably the new housing that takes its place will be equally short-lived and unliveable-in. Who would want to live in a flat in between the A4 and a main railway line?
I went to see the building today. Demolition has begun. Very sad. The building is one of the very few of merit in Slough. Too late now?
See http://tinyurl.com/6k2da25 for some of my pictures.
Well i’m watching them demolish it this veryminute! what a scandalous waste of money. No wonder further education is such a mess and they expect our children to pay £9000.00 a year for the privilege. Piracy!!!!
It’s scandalous that despite a £450M regeneration project going on right now, that we have no money for a decent transport system or university.
Slough has no local place for higher education now.
The town is seriously lacking in people educated enough to meet the demands of business in the area. That is why people are commuting in from the more affluent areas to be our bosses. Many of them actually look down their noses at the town and the people thinking we are inferior because of our low educational credentials.
All you can get now is level 1 and level 2 courses which are the eqivalent of a weak o level / GCSE and most of the people who need to upgrade their numeracy and literacy skills live too far from the technical colleges or jsut cannot afford to travel on the rubbish transport systems to get an education.