The Lanchester Building was designed by the architect Basil Spence with Ove Arup and Partners as consulting engineers. It was built by Laing for the University of Southampton to house the Departments of Electronics and other engineering departments. The foundations of the building were laid in Autumn 1957, Laing's building work commenced in February 1958 and it was opened in the summer of 1959. The four-storey block, located beside existing engineering workshops, included laboratories, lecture rooms, studies, offices and a projecting lecture theatre at first floor level, forming the entrance canopy.
This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John Laing Charitable Trust in 2019-20.
This is part of the Series: JLP01/08 John Laing Photographic Collection Black and White Negatives; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection
© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection
Photographer: Spence, Basil: John Laing And Son (Holdings) Ltd
Mid 20th Century University, Construction, People At Work
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