Hicks Building

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building_name = Hicks Building

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caption = The Hicks Building, viewed from Western Bank, showing the red-brick main building, and the smaller blue extension.
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location = Sheffield, Yorkshire
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completion_date = 1950s
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height = 40 m
floor_count = 9
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The Hicks Building is a building in the city of Sheffield, Yorkshire, part of the University of Sheffield.

The building houses the departments of physics, astrophysics, some of the engineering department and the School of Mathematics and Statistics (which comprises the departments of Probability and Statistics, Applied Mathematics and Pure Mathematics). [cite web|url=http://www.made-in-sheffield.com/Places/landmark.asp?PlaceName=Hicks|title=Hicks Building|publisher=Made in Sheffield - Landmarks]

It is in three sections: a taller building, with a roof height of around 40 m, clad in red-brick; a shorter, fully-linked section which is only around 12 m tall, clad in blue tiles and glass; and a section facing the University Concourse, around 15m tall, clad in white. It was built in the 1950s, but was reclad to give it a more modern appearance [ [http://test.cpmg-architects.com/html/projects/hicks_building.htm CPMG Architects page on the recladding of the building] ] and because the old cladding was in a poor state of repairFact|date=June 2007. The smaller section was also reclad, in 2006.

The building has long been one of the city's taller buildingsFact|date=June 2007, and has dominated the site to the south of Western Bank [cite web|url=http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=swx4qwgw8jcy&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=7715320&encType=1|title=Bird's-eye view] (the Arts Tower, Sheffield's tallest building, is on the northern side, though closer to Bolsover Street) until the completion of the shorter, copper-clad Information Commons, adjacent to Upper Hanover Street.

References

External links

* [http://www.shef.ac.uk/pas/ University of Sheffield]