Bute Building

The Bute Building (Welsh: Adeilad Bute) is a Cardiff University building in Cathays Park, Cardiff, Wales.

[1] The neoclassical building was designed by architects Percy Thomas and Ivor Jones, who won a competition in 1911 to design a building for Cardiff Technical College.

[3][4] The building has six Roman Doric columns in the front of the building and includes the Birt Acres Lecture Theatre.

[5][6] The design has been called "disappointingly conventional"[7] In 1962 the Technical college became the Welsh College of Advanced Technology[8] and in 1968 the Bute Building became the main building of the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST).

[10] The UK's largest Sky Dome, an artificial sky 8 metres in diameter run by the School of Architecture and used for daylight modelling and sun-path studies, is located in the basement of the building.