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This article covers the buildings at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Kensington Terrace buildings
The Kensington Terrace buildings lie on Kensington Road. The University Computing Laboratory was originally housed in Kensington Terrace, until moving into Claremont Tower in 1967.

King George VI Building
The King George VI building is named after George VI and was the former home of the Medical School.

Construction began in 1937, following a gift from Sir Arthur Sutherland of £100,000 and was occupied by the Medical School from 1938 having outgrown its old premises on Northumberland Road (now occupied by Northumbria University, and first opened in 1883), to 1984 when it moved to a new site behind the Royal Victoria Infirmary. It was opened by the King and Queen Elizabeth in February 1939. The building was further extended with an additional floor completed 1954–58.

It was featured in the British TV drama Wire In The Blood, where the front facade was used as a police station.

Uses and schools
Schools and services which are located within the King George VI building include:
 * The School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
 * The Staff Development Unit
 * The Newcastle University mosque

King's Gate Building
The King's Gate Building is currently under construction and is expected to be completed in January 2010. It is to be a contemporary landmark building in the Haymarket area, and will act as an entrance to the University's campus.

Development
The cost of the project is £35 million, of which £2m will be spent on landscaping. The Barras Bridge entrance to King's Walk will also be improved, where the current narrow staircases will be replaced by new 6 metre wide ones. It will be five storeys high, and be 8000 square metres in size. The glass and sandstone fronted building is to be a 'front door' to the University.

The building is also to have an environmentally friendly design, generating 10% of its energy from renewable sources. The design also attempts to make an air conditioning system unnecessary. The architects, Bond Bryan have claimed that the building will have a very good BREEAM rating.

In 2005 the University began pre-planning permission discussions with the City Council, Commission of the Built Environment (CABE), English Heritage and the Newcastle Conservation Advisory Panel (NCAP) on this development. The University unveiled the plans in May 2007, and planning permission for the build was granted to Bond Bryan Architects by Newcastle City Council on 29 June 2007. Bond Bryan Architects won the contract over companies such as Terry Farrell and Partners, Faulkner Brown, DEGW, Howarth Lichfield and the Howe Partnership. Owing to its location, a pressure relief shaft for the Tyne and Wear Metro system had to be integrated into the building's design. To solve this problem the ground floor will have interactive work stations, and the circular shape of the shaft will be echoed in some of the above floors.

Construction began in April 2008, and was completed by Autumn 2009. The building was opened officially by Prince Andrew, Duke of York on 4 February 2010. The opening ceremony took place on the ground floor of the building during the afternoon. The Duke toured the building, before unveiling a plaque to commemorate the occasion. The Duke's daughter, Princess Eugenie of York is currently a student at the University.

The development of the Cultural Quarter and opening up of the campus are parts of a Master Plan for the University, drawn up by Sir Terry Farrell, a well-known architect and a former Newcastle University student. The building is the first phase of a £200 million investment programme into the development of the University's campus and facilities.

From 17 January to September 2009 the King's Walk steps access to the university were closed, due to essential work on the building.

Location
The building is located opposite the Civic Centre and Saint Thomas's Green, on Barras Bridge, in the Haymarket area of Newcastle upon Tyne. The site it is currently being built upon was formerly a car park for the University and the Northern Stage theatre. The building is also next to Campus Coffee and the Culture Lab.

On 7 April 2008 the Barras Bridge car park was closed for the development of the building. Around 370 parking spaces were lost.

A large area around Haymarket is currently being re-developed; aside from the King's Gate Building, this includes the INTO Newcastle developments and the new Haymarket Metro station. The council, NCAP and English Heritage took into account that the building must compliment the nearby listed buildings, the Grand Hotel building and the Claremont Buildings. The new building will also be taller than the grade II listed former Grand Hotel Building.

Uses
The new building will house the Careers Service, accommodation office, Student Well-being Service and Student Progress Service. Also located within the building will be the Marketing and Communications Directorate and the Development and Alumni Relations Office. Numerous administrative functions will also be relocated to the building including the Executive Office, Human Resources, finance and safety offices.

The student services will be located on the ground and first floors. Also on the ground floor there will be a visitors centre, providing information on the University and local information, such as about the Northern Stage theatre and the recently completed Great North Museum. The Executive office will be moved from its unsuitable office accommodation in Kensington Terrace and Park Terrace. The second and third floors will be open plan. The top floor will house offices for over 400 members of staff.

King's Road Centre
The King's Road Centre is a part of Newcastle University. Its name comes from the road, King's Road, on which it is located. It was recently refurbished and refitted, and contains five separate rooms with seating capacities from 15 to 300. The Lindisfarne Room is the largest of these rooms, and others include the Etal Room and the Bamburgh Room. The building also contains The Bistro, a modern cafe area.

Line Building (East)
The Line Building (East) is a part of Newcastle University. It faces the Haymarket area and is next to the Grand Hotel, and the future location of the INTO buildings.

Medical School
The Medical School is the largest interconnected complex of buildings in the University. It contains the Walton Library, and a new building is under construction. The buildings connect to the Royal Victoria Infirmary. The David Shaw Lecture theatre is above the entrance.

The modern Medical School buildings were opened by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1984.

Walton Library
The Walton Library is the University's medical library, and is located in the Medical School, near the RVI. It is named after Lord Walton of Detchant, former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Neurology.

Medical Sciences new building
The Medical Sciences new building was opened in 2010. It houses the Institute of Health and Society and the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology. It is sited on the former Transport House and Old Brewery, adjacent to the Sports Centre, and close to the Northern Institute for Cancer Research.

It cost £29 million, and was built between March 2008 and December 2009. The architect was FaulknerBrowns.

Merz Court
Merz Court was completed in 1963 and is named after John Theodore Merz and his sons Charles and Norbert. It was financed at a cost of £1,161,000 by funds from the University Grants Committee. The building was opened by the then Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. The largest lecture theatre contains 181 seats.

Uses and schools
The building houses the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, and the School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as several lecture theatres and a buttery.

Northern Stage
Northern Stage is an independent theatre built in 1970 and located in front of the Students Union Building. The theatre was formerly called Newcastle Playhouse and Gulbenkien Studio, but following a £9.5m refurbishment in 2006, the building reopened taking its name from the theatre company it houses.

Recognised as one of the top ten producing theatres in the country, Northern Stage both presents visiting national and international theatre and stages its own productions.

Old Forge building
The Old Forge building was demolished in preparation for the new INTO buildings that will open in 2010.

Old Library Building
The Old Library building is part of the campus of Newcastle University.

History
Prior to the erection of the Robinson Library it housed the University Library.

On Tuesday 18 November 2003, firefighters were called to the Old Library building after University security discovered a fire in the roof. The fire caused mainly smoke damage to electronic and computer systems, and was extinguished at 6am.

It contains large computer clusters and the Open Access Language Centre, opened in 1997. The Open Access Language Centre gives members of the University access to self-study resources in over 50 languages, 24 satellite channels in 17 languages and 800 foreign language films, and is located in the old Reading Room. The Courtyard Restaurant is located in the Old Library building.

Uses and schools
Schools and services which are located within the Old Library building are:
 * The Newcastle University Branch of INTO
 * The School of Modern Languages
 * The Language Centre
 * The Courtyard Restaurant
 * The Research Beehive, containing many seminar, conference and meeting rooms.

Park Terrace Buildings
The Park Terrace Buildings is a part of Newcastle University.

Paul O'Gorman Building
The Paul O'Gorman Building is a part of Newcastle University. It houses the Northern Institute for Cancer Research (NICR).

Percy Building
The Percy Building is named after Eustace Percy, the Rector of Kings College, Durham from 1937 to 1952. The building was originally designed to be part of a group of buildings in an Arts precinct but this plan was never realised. It was opened by J. Dover Wilson in October 1958.

Among its features, it contains 2 lecture theatres, seating 98 people, and two smaller break-out rooms, seating 16 and 40 people respectively.

Uses and schools
Schools and services which are located within the Percy Building are:
 * The School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics

Porter Building
The Porter Building is a part of Newcastle University. The Porter Building is to be refurbished for the build.

Ridley Building
The Ridley Building is named after Matthew White Ridley, the 3rd Viscount Ridley, who was Chairman of the Council of Newcastle University from 1963 to 1964.

The Ridley Building consists of two connected buildings named Ridley Building 1 and 2. The second building was a later addition.

Among its features it contains 2 lecture theatres, seating more than 160 people each, and a suite of 16 classroom areas, sitting 17-60 people.

Spin out companies from the University, Envision and Biofresh, use the Ridley building.

Uses and schools
Schools and services which are located within the Ridley Building include:
 * The School of Biology
 * The School of Marine Science and Technology
 * The School of Psychology

Robinson Library
The Robinson Library is the central library of the university and is located on Jesmond Road West. It is named after Philip Robinson, a bookseller in the city following a bequest in the will of his widow Marjorie in 1989. To date, the £8 million donation remains the largest sum donated to a UK university library.

Royal Victoria Infirmary
The Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) is a hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, opened on 11 July 1906. The Royal Victoria Infirmary has close links with the Faculty of Medical Sciences at University of Newcastle upon Tyne as a major teaching hospital.

Sports Centre
The Sports Centre was built at a cost of £5.5 million, and its facilities include a fitness suite, multi-purpose gym, weights room and sports injury clinic.

Stephenson Building
The Stephenson building is named after George Stephenson (1781–1848), a famous British engineer who built the world's first public railway.

Uses and schools
Schools and services which are located within the Stephenson Building include:
 * The School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering

Students' Union Building
The Union building was built in 1924 in the neo-Jacobean style and was designed by the local architect Robert Burns Dick. It was opened on 22 October 1925 by the Rt. Hon. Lord Eustace Percy, who later served as Rector of King's College from 1937 to 1952. It is a Grade II listed building. The Union building was built in 1924 following a generous gift from an anonymous donor, who is now believed to have been Sir Cecil Cochrane, a major benefactor to the University. Substantial additions were made to the rear in the 1960s in a contemporary style, including a debating chamber which was demolished in 2003.

From 17 January 2009 the King's Walk steps access to the university were closed, due to essential work on the King's Gate building. The steps will be closed for around nine months. During the Summer of 2009 the area in front of the union building was refurbished.

The union has 6 bars, a range of food outlets and a shop.

William Leech Building
The William Leech Building is a part of Newcastle University's Medical School. It is named for Sir William Leech, founder of the William Leech Charity.

Windsor Terrace Buildings
The Windsor Terrace Buildings are a part of Newcastle University.

Wolfson Unit
The Wolfson Unit is a part of Newcastle University located between the Ridley building and the majority of the Medical School.