The triangular site for the project is an important threshold completing a line of existing buildings leading from the central campus.

The teaching and conference accommodation consist of a 400 seat raked auditorium fully equipped with AV presentation systems, projection facilities and teaching aides housed in a two and a half storey cylindrical form.

A central toplight double height foyer and first floor congregation spaces link the auditorium to ten large seminar rooms arranged on the ground and first storeys of an "L" shaped rectilinear block. At first and second floors academic accommodation for the Department of Social Studies is provided.

All parts of the building are designed to meet disabled persons requirements.

The building is united by common use of materials, being finished in self coloured white render, with contrasting string courses and copings in red brickwork. The materials are chosen to echo those of adjacent buildings.

The building services are simple, using wet system radiators and emitters sourced from a central boiler room with air handling plant and displacement ventilation supplied to the lecture theatre. Elsewhere, windows provide natural ventilation and are triple glazed metal clad timber units. The structure comprises of insitu concrete frame and trough floors spanning full width, on a 900mm module, with continuous fluorescent uplighting. Internal partitions are lightweight construction to allow for future adaptation.