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Towers Hall is a Hall of Residence accommodating 310 students at Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom, it is located on the 'East Park' of the University's campus.〔 == Design and construction == Towers was designed by Gollins Melvin Ward & Partners Chartered Architects of London in 1963, who were also designers of much of University of Sheffield, the British Airways terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York and the Royal Military Academy building. The building was originally the proposed by John Bridgeman, the Principal of the Loughborough Teacher Training College. Bridgeman retired in 1963, and the building was completed in the time of the next principal, John Hardie. Built during 1964-5 by William Moss & Sons Ltd, based in Loughborough, the construction process was not without event as the building began to subside at 8 storeys high as a result of a marsh which lay where Butler Court, a more recent Hall of Residence, now sits, so building work had to be postponed while concrete was pumped into the foundations of the structure. The building is 210 ft (64m) high in total; The East tower is about 157 ft (48m) and the West about 183 ft (56m). Towers was first used for accommodation in September 1965.〔http://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/campus-living/accommodation/halls/towers/ SAC - Halls of Residence -Towers (23 July 2008 )〕 The building is a Locally Listed Building of important interest, its description on Charnwood Borough Council's record states that it is a ''severe ‘modern’ high rise block comprising 2 towers of 22 and 18 storeys linked by a central access tower'' and is significant for its ''cold, grey modular pre-cast concrete construction''. 〔http://www.charnwood.gov.uk/environment/loughborough.html Charnwood Borough Council - Environment & Planning - Loughborough Local (23 July 2008 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Towers Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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