Template:Did you know nominations/Brunel University lecture centre

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The result was: promoted by Sohom Datta talk 03:44, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Brunel University lecture centre

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Brunel University's lecture centre in 2024

... that Brunel University's lecture centre (pictured) was planned to be part of one of the biggest engineering teaching complexes in Europe?

Source: "(The university's new campus) was to be one of the largest engineering teaching complexes in Europe... The lecture centre formed part of the first phase of the new campus"

ALT1: ... that Brunel University's lecture centre (pictured) has been described as "imposing" and "frightening", but also as "an expressive centrepiece" and "a brutalist classic"? Source: "imposing", "frightening" and "a brutalist classic", "an expressive centrepiece"
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Dagmar Skálová
Comment: I personally prefer ALT1.

Created by Suntooooth (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 22:19, 14 June 2024 (UTC).

Review underway... Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 16:02, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Created (moved from draftspace) on 14th June.
Long enough, and graded at B-class.
Decent sources: NHLE listing particulars (extensive), a journal article with more than a passing mention, book about the university (I have checked this via WebArchive) and a couple of newspaper pieces. No issues around notability.
QPQ review has been done and is awaiting action from the article's nominator. (Edit to say that this is one of the DYK nominations affected by the blocking of the article nominator Evrik as detailed here, which I hadn't realised until checking WT:DYK today. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 12:30, 18 June 2024 (UTC))
Re. The lecture centre was finished in 1966 or 1967: surprising that Historic England has not been able to pin down the completion date, but I have checked the listing particulars and other sources and it is indeed the case.
Image is suitably licensed, was taken by the article author, is used in the article and looks fine at thumbnail size.
All statements are sourced. No issues with neutrality.
No copyvio or close paraphrasing noted. There are a couple of phrases which cannot really be reworded without losing their meaning.
Hooks: both are fully verified. ALT1 is better; I wonder if it might be worth including a reference to the building's use in A Clockwork Orange to grab attention. Something like: ...that Brunel University's "imposing" and "frightening" lecture centre (pictured) featured in A Clockwork Orange? (another editor would need to sign off that hook).

Happy to mark this as verified. Note to prep builders: see my comment above on a possible ALT2 hook which I have suggested. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 21:09, 17 June 2024 (UTC)