The Belfast Telegraph

A £30m project is to totally transform the University of Ulster campus at York Street in Belfast. Images show the existing 1960s College of Art building extended fully on to York Street, with the existing bridge across the street, which linked it with an adapted former Co-operative Society building, replaced by a mall housed in a shiny glass tube. According to Hilary Robinson, head of the School of Art and Design at the University of Ulster, it is not before time. "Part of the problem with the existing building is that nothing has been done to it for over ten years," she says. While many people consider it to be one of the ugliest buildings in the city and will be glad to see the back of it, there are many others who will mourn the passing of one of Belfast's first 'international style' buildings.