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Thursday, 26 May 2011 00:00

Minghella Building

Professor Lib Taylor Thrilled With New Minghella Building, University of Reading

Professor Lib Taylor, University of Reading, wrote to Stride Treglown to thank us for our hard work in designing The Minghella Building for the Department of Film, Theatre and Television.

She said:

"I just wanted to write and thank (Stride Treglown) for all your hard work in designing this really lovely building. We are all absolutely thrilled with it and we couldn't have wished for a better space in which to work. It is very practical and appropriate for our work in so many of its excellent details, but it is also very beautiful and a lovely space to work in. The students couldn't take the smile off their faces when we first introduced it to them a couple of weeks ago. In fact, they have taken to it like the proverbial ducks and are using the spaces (the breakout spaces in particular) just as we hoped. The staff are also enjoying all the spaces, especially the terrace – we had such lovely weather when we first moved in that we took full advantage of it.

I seem to spend enormous amounts of time showing people around and but I am told we are the envy of the University and many many people have commented on how lovely the building is. I know we will have trouble keeping it a secret and are expecting to be inundated with requests to use it!

...I wanted to write to you personally to thank you for all you have done and to let you know how delighted we are with the building. We really appreciated you listening so carefully to us and trying to work through what, at times, must have seemed like impossible demands."

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