Bute is the main biology building at St Andrews. Its enterior contains some of the most bizarre architecture I've ever seen.
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Bute A 17th century, listed building |
The outside has remained unchanged with turrets |
and columns but the inside? |
Bute Medical Buildings Note the "S" covered in ivy. This may be the root of many problems. |
The entrance hall is quite grand |
Arches abound |
Pretty tiled floors |
A nice old hallway sided with wooden cabinets. But wait, is that a staircase? |
Yes, it's a staircase This goes to the upper level of the library |
Down the hall we find... a ladder into the ceiling. And next, the... |
Mysterty doors no one knows what's in these rooms. And around the bend, my favorite: |
The Escher Stairs |
Confusing enough to require quite a few direction signs! |
More Escher signs |
Under these stairs a door is tucked away. It took me forever to find this door. I knew there was... |
a computer lab but I couldn't get there! |
On the Escher stairs |
The top of one stair set Hey, more stairs to the right! |
Yes, definitely stairs But they appear to go to... |
A blank wall |
Yes, definitely a blank wall! |
This doesn't look like a corridor But it's used as one, being the only way across the building on this floor |
But not all is strange We have the Bell Petigrew Museum |
Bell Petigrew with a nice, modern sign |
Exihibits |
A central area for studing |
Bird display |
Old instrument display |
Horse skeleton |
Formerly believed... to be that of Eclipse! (I love the "formerly believed" part) |
Mammals |
Ah, the museum |
But back out to the rest of Bute where you need signs to direct you |
Lots of signs note the arrow direction--this is NOT a close-up of the last picture! |
More signs |
Many, |
Many, |
Many, |
Many |
Signs! |
Up these stairs (You might start to notice that there are stairs all over) |
The corridor is bit too long |
And this is definitely... An outside wall! |
One of my favorites are these sets of stairs |
Yes, they just go up and down |
Some signs... Are for warning purposes |
And it's true! |
Random stairs I guess some rooms are more special than others |
And if you thought the floor of this corridor was a bit slanted... it is! |
This is a strange triangular spot in the corridor Note the signs through the door! |
And there are still arches about |
And stairs really are all over! |
A short door |
A floating door There are stairs nearby, but... |
it looks like the stairs missed! |
Yes, that is a staircase through the window at the top of the stairs |
Up these stairs |
A nice sunny balcony |
And that's it for Bute! |