[1] The roof of the largest lecture theatre in the building has an abstract sculpture by Michael Piper on it.

[6] The Schuster Laboratory was built during a time of expansion for the university, with the construction of a new Science Quadrangle.

[7] This was followed by the Simon Engineering Laboratories on the south-west of the quadrangle, finished in mid-1962, and the Chemistry building on the south-east which was completed by October 1964.

It contains additional laboratories and offices, as well as dedicated areas for group work and collaboration.

[10] The building houses four lecture theatres around the foyer on the ground floor named after people who taught or researched in the department: Rutherford, Bragg, Blackett, and Moseley (seating 258, 148, 145, and 155, respectively).