Adam Smith Building
Named for the “father of economics”, the Adam Smith Building is the University of Glasgow’s new state-of-the-art business school and Postgraduate Taught (PGT) hub.
The six-storey teaching and research building ensures students have a dedicated space to work across academia, research, industry and innovation - leading to enlightened, engaged graduates who are internationally recognised and cementing the University’s position as one of the world’s most progressive and enterprising centres for business.
The building is organised into three interconnected stacks – for research, collaboration and teaching. A design that encourages interaction and transparency and better consolidates postgraduate activities - from independent work to interdisciplinary team challenges – while enhancing the business school and PGT hub’s ability to mobilise and capture large-scale funding and research projects.
A reconfigurable space called the Hothouse hosts industry-led activities, including entrepreneurial hackathons, workshops, careers events, and student-led societies, offering valuable opportunities to refocus and scale up the business school and PGT hub’s engagement and networks.
The new Adam Smith Building is one of five major projects in the first phase of the University of Glasgow’s Gillmorehill campus expansion and redevelopment of the West Infirmary site. It forms part of a greater 10-year master plan to transform the 14-acre former hospital site and contribute to the regeneration of the city’s West End.
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“The Adam Smith Building will increase scope for cross-disciplinary collaboration, creating inspiring spaces which facilitate innovation and support our students in their learning and teaching within and beyond their degree programmes.”
