Brunel University - Campus

Campus

In the late 1990s Brunel devised a 10-year, £250 million Masterplan for the campus. This involved selling off campus sites at Runnymede, Osterley and Twickenham and using the revenue from the sales to renovate and update the buildings and facilities on the Uxbridge campus. Works carried out included a library extension, a state-of-the-art sports complex, renovated students' union facilities, a new Health Sciences teaching centre, and the construction of more halls of residence.

Since the original Masterplan, the University has spent a further £50 million on campus renovation and work is currently underway on the building of a new 'Eastern Gateway' building, which will house a 400 seat lecture theatre, main reception, the Brunel Business School and the Beldam art gallery.

The Brunel campus (especially those buildings in the 1960s 'Brutalist' architectural style) has appeared in several films, most famously in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, large parts of which were filmed on campus. It has also featured in several UK television series including Spooks, Silent Witness and Inspector Morse.

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