Elvet Riverside was a new arts faculty building for Durham University, built in the mid-1960s. It was designed by Architects Co-Partnership, consulting engineers were Ove Arup & Partners and it was constructed by John Laing Construction Ltd. The complex consisted of two buildings Elvet and Riverside connected by a bridge link with an inner courtyard. The Riverside block was built on stilts and housed offices and professors' rooms and the Elvet block adjacent to New Elvet housed a library, lecture theatres and communal areas. The original buildings has subsequently been renamed Elvet Riverside 1 since the addition of Elvet Riverside 2.
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
Mid 20th Century University, Waterscape
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