Goldsmiths College, Lewisham Way, London

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsmiths,_University_of_London

" Goldsmiths, University of London, legally the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London.[3] It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in New Cross, London.[4] It was renamed Goldsmiths' College after being acquired by the University of London in 1904, and specialises in the arts, design, computing, humanities and social sciences.[5] The main building on campus, known as the Richard Hoggart Building, was originally opened in 1792 and is the site of the former Royal Naval School.[6]

According to Quacquarelli Symonds (2021), Goldsmiths ranks 12th in Communication and Media Studies, 15th in Art & Design and is ranked in the top 50 in the areas of Anthropology, Sociology and the Performing Arts.[7] In 2020, the university enrolled over 10,000 students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.[2] 37% of students come from outside the United Kingdom and 52% of all undergraduates are mature students (aged 21 or over at the start of their studies).[8] Additionally, around a third of students at Goldsmiths are postgraduate students.[2]

Goldsmiths is situated in New Cross, a highly populated area of south-east London.

The main building, the Richard Hoggart Building, was originally designed as a school (opened in 1844) by the architect John Shaw, Jr (1803–1870). The former Deptford Town Hall building, designed by Henry Vaughan Lanchester and Edwin Alfred Rickards, acquired in 1998, is used for academic seminars and conferences. In addition to this Goldsmiths has built several more modern buildings to develop the campus, including the RIBA award-winning Rutherford Building completed in 1997, the Ben Pimlott Building designed by Will Alsop and completed in 2005, and the Professor Stuart Hall Building (formerly the New Academic Building) which was completed in 2010.

The library, or the Rutherford Building, has three floors and gives students access to an extensive range of printed and electronic resources. Goldsmiths' students, like all other students in the University of London, have full access to the collections at Senate House Library at Bloomsbury in central London.

The seven-storey Ben Pimlott Building on New Cross Road, complete with its distinctive "scribble in the sky" (made from 229 separate pieces of metal) has become a signature of modern Goldsmiths. It contains studio and teaching space for the Department of Art, as well as housing the Goldsmiths Digital Studios[12] and the Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture.[13]

The Professor Stuart Hall Building (formerly the New Academic Building), situated next to the green, is home to the Media and Communications Department and the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE).[14] Facilities include a 250-seat lecture theatre, seminar and teaching rooms, as well as a cafe with outdoor seating."

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8 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6NW, UK

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Website

https://www.gold.ac.uk/

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Cafe at Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths College, 80 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6NW

Library: Goldsmiths Library, Rutherford Information Services Building, Goldsmith's College Education Building, New Cross, Lewisham Way, London SE14 6PP

Theatre at Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths College, 80 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6NW

Toilets

Goldsmiths College Nursery, 30 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6NW

Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, St James's, London SE14 6AD