Have a virtual sneak peek into our buildings (Appleton Tower and Informatics Forum) and their colourful history. Welcome to the School of Informatics. It is our pleasure to offer you a digital sneak peek into the interiors of the Informatics Forum and Appleton Tower in the video below. 360 photos of our buildings are available as well. 360 photographs of Informatics Forum and Appleton Tower If you are interested in the history of our buildings, we have collated some historical information for you. History of Appleton Tower History of Informatics Forum Background stories We have asked our scientists how they ended up as computer scientists and everyone had a different story to tell. HTML History of Appleton Tower A controversial building since its inception, Appleton Tower underwent a thorough refurbishment in 2016-17 and earned the ‘Design Through Innovation’ award in the 2018 RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Awards. History of Informatics Forum Opened in September 2008 by the then First Minister, Alex Salmond, the Informatics Forum is a fit for purpose building, providing a Forum for Interaction that fosters synergies among the 500 researchers in Informatics. This article was published on 2024-03-18
