The Bute Building ( cy, Adeilad Bute) is a Cardiff University building in

Cathays Park Cathays Park ( cy, Parc Cathays) or Cardiff Civic Centre is a civic centre area in the city centre of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, consisting of a number of early 20th century buildings and a central park area, Alexandra Gardens. It i ...

Cardiff Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...

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. It houses the

Welsh School of Architecture The Welsh School of Architecture (WSA) ( cy, Ysgol Bensaernïaeth Cymru) is an academic school of Cardiff University. It is generally regarded as a world leading school of architecture, and one of the top architecture schools in Britain. In 201 ...

. It is a Grade II

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. The neoclassical building was designed by architects

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and Ivor Jones, who won a competition in 1911 to design a building for Cardiff Technical College. The foundations of the building were laid in 1913 and the building opened in 1916. The building has six Roman Doric columns in the front of the building and includes the

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Lecture Theatre. The design has been called "disappointingly conventional" In 1962 the Technical college became the Welsh College of Advanced Technology and in 1968 the Bute Building became the main building of the

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. It now houses the Welsh School of Architecture and the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. It also contained two libraries, the Bute Library and Architecture Library. The UK's largest Sky Dome, an artificial sky 8 metres in diameter run by the School of Architecture and used for daylight modelling and sun-path studies, is located in the basement of the building.

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* {{coord, 51.48652, N, 3.18264, W, type:landmark_region:GB, display=title Cardiff University School buildings completed in 1916 Grade II listed buildings in Cardiff Percy Thomas buildings Neoclassical architecture in Wales Cathays Park 1916 establishments in Wales