In my day we called that era of uni architecture "white tile". There was us, UEA, Keele, and a few other rural campus universities. The Rootes tiles all started to fall off and hit people on the head, which is why there's all that white metal cladding. You used to hear an occasional thud as a tile fell off and hit the inside of the cladding.
As one of the earlier occupants of Cryfield Hall (1976), I can testify that the corridors may have stopped riots, but the water fights were quite spectacular. Until they put bars on the kitchen windows, and you couldn't dive out of them anymore.
The TOIL statue was particularly loved by pranksters. The best one was a fake hanging, with the body swinging slowly in an early morning November fog.
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Date: 2008-04-07 01:41 pm (UTC)As one of the earlier occupants of Cryfield Hall (1976), I can testify that the corridors may have stopped riots, but the water fights were quite spectacular. Until they put bars on the kitchen windows, and you couldn't dive out of them anymore.
The TOIL statue was particularly loved by pranksters. The best one was a fake hanging, with the body swinging slowly in an early morning November fog.