Engineering Building, University Of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow

The Engineering Building at the University of Glasgow was designed by John James Burnet with consultant J Oldrid Scott in 1901 and 1908, with an arcaded range added to the south by John Burnet, Son & Partners in 1920, and a heightening of the south range in brick by J Keppie, Henderson & Gleave in 1952. This three-storey and basement teaching building features Scottish Renaissance and Baronial architectural styles. It has a near rectangular plan with two parallel east-west ranges, constructed of squared and snecked, stugged blond sandstone with ashlar quoins. The building includes a stepped plinth, string courses, parapets, decorative strapwork window pediments, pepperpot angle turrets, crowstepped gables, and tall offset chimneys. A decorative archway connects it to Pearce Lodge to the north.

The west elevation has five bays, with the main entrance located over a balustraded bridge at the first floor. This entrance features an open, broken segmental pedimented doorpiece with an arched entry and rusticated piers. The northern bays have regular windows with strapwork pediments at the second floor, while the southern bays contain narrow, corniced windows, a corbelled turret, and crowstepped gables. The north elevation is plain, repeating window details with a sculpted parapet at the northeast corner, and it has angle buttressing at the third-floor corner turret. The south elevation features keyblocked, arched basement windows and a central semi-extruded tower that rises to full height with a polygonal roof, along with a pilastered niche supported by scrolls and sculpture, and irregular fenestration that repeats the window detailing, including a turret at the southeast corner. The archway linking to Pearce Lodge has vehicular and pedestrian arches made of banded blocks and a semi-circular pediment. The south extension consists of six keyblocked, arched buttressed sections with a parapet.

The building has two-, three-, and four-light stone mullioned sash and case windows with strapwork pediments, and it features pitched slate roofs.

Inside, the public spaces seen in 2010 largely retain their original room plan. The entrance lobby has timber panelling and parquet flooring, along with a decorative wrought-iron balustrade and a carved fish-head terminal on the handrail of the main stair. There have been numerous 20th-century alterations to finishes in other areas.