Faraday Building (Manchester)
The Faraday Building's architect was Harry Fairhurst, of the long-established Manchester firm of H.S. Fairhust & Son. It was constructed in 1967 by J. Gerrard & Sons.
The building housed, until mid-to-late 2007, part of the University of Manchester School of Chemistry. The School of Chemistry is now located mainly at the Chemistry Building on Brunswick Street, however a significant number of former Faraday-based academics researching biologically related chemistry are now based in the nearby Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre.
Appropriately, given its chemistry roots, the building housed a mural called The Alchemist's Elements (1967) by Hans Tisdall.
As part of the closure of the North Campus, the building was closed in 2015, and partially demolished in 2016.
References
- ^ "University of Manchester mural restored and relocated – The Twentieth Century Society". c20society.org.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2024.