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South Parks Road, OXFORD, OX1 3RB

This building, which faces onto South Parks Road was later renamed the Tinbergen Building after Nobel prize-winning ethologist Niko Tinbergen, who lectured at the University and died in 1988.

In the 1980s when I was a student here, this hulking concrete behemoth was glibly asserted to be the ugliest building in Oxford; I now rather enjoy its in-your-face Brutalism. The concrete does get dirty, though.

When I was a student in the early 1980s this was glibly asserted to be the ugliest building in Oxford, and unthinkingly I went along with this; but we've all rather reassessed Brutalism since then, and I've learned to enjoy its "in your face" style. Besides, it can't be the ugliest building in Oxford any longer: not as long as the tower of the Said Business School greets visitors off the train.

Looking towards the Department of Psychology on South Parks Road.

In the 1980s when I was a student here, this hulking concrete behemoth was glibly asserted to be the ugliest building in Oxford; I now rather enjoy its in-your-face Brutalism. The concrete does get dirty, though.

New development is taking place here to replace the Tinbergen Building which housed the University of Oxford's departments of Zoology and Experimental Psychology as well as teaching laboratories for the Department of Biochemistry. It was necessary to close the old building in 2017 after the discovery of asbestos throughout the structure and the decision was taken to demolish it. The new building will house the Department of Experimental Psychology and a Department of Biology.

Looking along South Parks Road in Oxford.

A 'University Departments Building' that houses the Departments of Zoology, Experimental Psychology and Biomedical Sciences is seen here from outside Linacre College. St Cross Road - on the left - and South Parks Road - on the right - meet at this corner.

The entrance/exit in and out of Mesopotamia Walk, a thoroughfare for cyclists and pedestrians that connects this part of Oxford with Ferry Lane, New Marston. Behind the photographer St Cross Road and South Parks Road join at a right angle. The black gates visible on the left hand margin of the picture flag-up the entrance to "University Parks". This vast area of ‘green space’, totals 74 acres (30 ha.) and was purchased from Merton College between 1853-64. It is, to all intent and purpose, a huge public park. The building on the left is a lodge. The corner or the building on the right is part of Linacre College.