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Senate House modular university

The University of London's Senate House, a monolithic block on the London skyline, served as the Ministry of Information during WW2 and is possibly most famous as the fictional Ministry of Truth in the 1984 adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four. I present it here as a modular set of buildings which combine to make a large university complex, as originally envisioned in the 1930s but prevented by lack of funding. This can be the centrepiece of a 1930s or 1940s city, and should fit in well with the skyline of later games.

There are 10 different elements, all designed to fit together with grid snapping.

Tower

• Party HQ - 60+60 workers, 300 students
  
• Technical university - 60+60 workers, 300 students

Spine

• Administrative building - city hall, 60 workers.
  
• Medical university - 60+60 workers, 300 students
  
• Residential - accommodates 360 at 87% quality
  
• Student halls - accommodates 300, also has a road through the building
  
• Sports hall - counts as indoor pool, 300 customers, 4* attraction
  
• Library and theatre - 300 customers, 5* attraction

Endpiece

• Residential - accommodates 200 at 89% quality
  
• Kindergarten - up to 360 children

The original plan was for a single main tower and a "spine" of buildings, but apart from the endpieces, they can all stand alone as buildings and be combined however you like (see the last image for an idea).

In the 1930s, the University of London planned a huge new modern headquarters in Bloomsbury. Planned to be 370 metres long, the complex featured two towers linked by a long spine, and a number of courtyards enclosed by wings. Due to a lack of funding, only the larger of the two towers, the 64-metre-high Senate House, and a handful of smaller wings were completed.

You can read more about the real building's history on the University of London website[www.london.ac.uk] and see a video of the construction work here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VvrQaeJv1k

Many thanks to Comrade Joe and Shotkey whose multi-part modular buildings were a big inspiration for this, and above all to Antalunet, whose inspirational work on skyscrapers in the building editor started me on this project, for help, advice, encouragement, and for the amazing set of screenshots and borders he put together for me to make this look as good as it can. Thanks very much, pal :)