The campus changed very little from its humble beginnings to the creation of the University of Strathclyde in 1964. The centrepiece building has long been the massive Royal College
Building, begun in 1903, and building work took nine years to complete. The 1960s and 1970s saw a huge programme of new academic
buildings being built, while the 1980s concentrated on developing the student residences.
Below is a synopsis of the campus history, along with the current occupiers of each building in brackets:
- 1912 Completion of Royal College Building
- 1958 James Weir Building (Mechanical, Design, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering)
- 1959 Students Union Building
- 1959 Opening of Marland House by its owner, Post Office Telephones
- 1962 Thomas Graham Building (Chemistry)
- 1963 McCance Building (houses central administration, History, Registry)
- 1965 Livingstone Tower (Maths, Statistics, Languages, Computer Science)
- 1967 Colville Building (Civil Engineering, Metallurgy, Physics)
- 1969 Architecture Building
- 1971 John Anderson Building (Physics, Civil Engineering)
- 1972 Wolfson Centre (Bioengineering), Birkbeck Court residences
- 1973 Collins Building (Collins Gallery, Senate/Court suites)
- 1975 University Centre (Refectory, Staff Club, Sports Centre)
- 1976 Todd Centre (Pharmacology)
- 1977 William Duncan Building (Strathclyde Business School)
- 1981 Curran Building created from former Collins warehouse (houses Andersonian Library)
- 1983 EAC Building (later Lord Hope Building)
- 1984 Lord Todd restaurant, acquisition of the Barony Hall
- 1987 Marland House acquired from British Telecom, is renamed Graham Hills Building
- 1990 Opening of James Blyth and Thomas Campbell student residences
- 1991 Opening of Chancellors' Hall student residences
- 1992 Graduate Business School building opens
- 1997 Opening of James Goold student residences
- 1998 John Arbuthnott Building (Pharmacology)
- 2001 Acquisition of the Rottenrow maternity hopital site
- 2002 Thomas Graham Building extension completed
- 2004 Rottenrow Gardens Opened