Gardens · West Midlands
Kilburn Building
Kilburn Building — a garden in england-west-midlands, United Kingdom.
Tim Glover — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
- Paid entry
- Dog-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Kilburn Building is a garden of interest in england-west-midlands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Kilburn Building is a building on the Oxford Road in Manchester which is home to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. The building was designed by the Building Design Partnership and completed in 1972, with three storeys in a square shape, measuring 76 by 76 metres. The building was formerly known as the Computer Building changing its name in 2001 in honour of Tom Kilburn who died in the same year.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
Architecture
The Pevsner Architectural Guide describes the Kilburn building as a "big aggressive box of brick pier and vertical window strips" Up until its demolition in 2015, a pedestrian bridge connected the Kilburn Building to the Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), via the Precinct Centre on North Side of the building over the Oxford Road. To the South, the building was connected by another pedestrian walkway (referred to as a dismal corridor in Pevsner) to the Mathematics Tower, Manchester which was demolished in 2005. The pedestrian walkways initially formed part of a futuristic but ultimately unsuccessful vision of streets in the sky to link Manchester Oxford Road railway station and out…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 53.4673, -2.2341
- District
- Manchester
- Parish
- Manchester, unparished area
- Postcode
- M13 9PL
- Parliamentary constituency
- Manchester Rusholme
- Established
- 1972
- Official site
- www.cs.manchester.ac.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q52164809 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Kilburn Building (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Kilburn Building?
- Kilburn Building is in the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode M13 9PL), in the parish of Manchester, unparished area.
- When was Kilburn Building built?
- Built or established in 1972.
- Who owns Kilburn Building?
- Kilburn Building is owned by University of Manchester.
- How do I get to Kilburn Building?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode M13 9PL. It sits within the Manchester Rusholme parliamentary constituency.