Warwick is located on the outskirts of
Coventry, southwest of the city centre and not in the town of
Warwick as its name suggests. The university's main site comprises three contiguous campuses, all within walking distance of each other. The university also owns a site in
Wellesbourne, acquired in 2004 when it merged with
Horticulture Research International.
Main campus The main Warwick campus occupies between the City of
Coventry and the County of
Warwickshire. The original buildings of the campus are in contemporary 1960s architecture. The campus contains all of the main student amenities, all but four of the student halls of residence, and the Students' Union. The campus is split between the parliamentary constituencies of
Kenilworth and
Southam and
Coventry South.
Warwick Arts Centre The
Warwick Arts Centre is a multi-venue arts complex situated at the centre of Warwick's main campus. It attracts around 300,000 visitors a year to over 3,000 individual events spanning contemporary and classical music, drama, dance, comedy, films and visual art. The centre comprises six principal spaces: the Butterworth Hall, a 1,500-seat concert hall; a 550-seat theatre; a 180-seat theatre studio; three cinema screens; the Mead Gallery, an art gallery; and the Music Centre, with practice rooms, and an ensemble rehearsal room where music societies and groups can rehearse. In addition the site includes a restaurant/ café.
University House In 2003, Warwick acquired the former headquarters of
National Grid, which it converted into an administration building renamed University House. There is a student-run facility called the ‘Learning Grid’ in the building, which includes two floors of PC clusters, scanners, photocopiers, a reference library, interactive whiteboards and plasma screens for use by individuals and for group work.
Koan The
White Koan is a modern art sculpture by
Liliane Lijn which is installed outside the back entrance to the Warwick Arts Centre. The
Koan is high, According to student newspaper
The Boar, the white Koan has played a role in many of campus' myths and legends – it was allegedly the nose-cap of the
Blue-Streak Missile, a supposed quick escape route for senior staff, and even a signalling device for aliens in outer space. The
Koan even garnered its own cartoon strip in the 1990s, with thirty-two episodes created by Steve Shipway. The Koan Worshipping Society, led by the Koanists, believe the
Koan is “the earth-bound manifestation of the immortal Koan, the creator of the universe”. featuring two sports halls with arena style balcony, the largest gym in the Higher education sector, a 12-lane 25 metre pool with movable floor, climbing and bouldering walls, squash courts, studio spaces and a café. The previous main sports centre was closed on 7 April 2019,
Esports facilities In September 2021, Warwick opened its esports centre in the new Junction building on central campus, marking it as the first esports facility opened in a
Russell Group university and also the first university esports facility to be opened in the UK that is not tied to a degree. The centre is equipped with 24 PCs, and is designed to be easily configurable and moveable to facilitate the hosting of larger scale events. The centre is open to all of the public, not just students of the university, and this is all only part of "Phase 1" of a larger push from the university to invest in esports. The centre is sponsored by Uninn and Coventry City Football Club, partnered with Sky Blues in the Community, Women in Games and Special Effect and has its tech supplied by Chillblast and HyperX.
Other sites , where
WBS houses its
London campus|alt=|293x293px Other Warwick sites include: • The
Gibbet Hill Campus, located contiguous to the main campus; home to the department of Life Sciences and the pre-clinical activities of
Warwick Medical School. • The
Westwood Campus, located contiguous to the main campus; home to the Centre for Professional Education, Centre for Lifelong Learning, the Arden House conference centre, an indoor tennis centre, a running track and some postgraduate facilities and student residences. • The University of Warwick Science Park. •
University Hospital Coventry, in
Walsgrave on Sowe area and home to the Clinical Sciences Building of the medical school. • Warwick Horticulture Research International Research & Conference Centre, located in Wellesbourne, Warwickshire. •
The Shard skyscraper, in the city of
London, houses
Warwick Business School's metropolitan campus where the Executive MBA is taught.
Recent developments In November 2005, Warwick outlined proposals for how it would like to develop its campus over the next fifteen years. The proposals built upon recent construction activity including a new
Mathematics and
Statistics Building, new
Computer Science Building, new
Business School buildings, a Digital Laboratory, new Residences and an expanded
Sports Centre. The proposals envisage a shift in the "centre of gravity" of the campus away from the Students' Union towards University House and a proposed "Academic Square". Developed projects included an inter-disciplinary biosciences research facility; a £25 million upgrade to
Warwick Business School; and the
National Automotive Innovation Campus (NAIC), a new £150 million venture funded by
Jaguar Land Rover and the UK government. The NAIC's purpose was to research and develop novel technologies to reduce dependency on fossil fuels and to reduce emissions. The new campus for postgraduates was opened in early-2020. The campus has been dubbed a "brain trust" and is intended to pioneer the green and high-tech sports and luxury cars of tomorrow, doubling the size of Jaguar's research team. In 2017, the university announced its intention to see an exponential growth of its main campus in order to remain "world-class" and cope with the growing number of applications it receives each year, especially from non-UK students. This growth included a new £33 million Faculty of Arts, a £55 million new sports centre which was finished in April 2019, a new £54.3 million Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building (IBRB), a new type of student accommodation called "Cryfield Village", the expansion of
Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), a redevelopment for the Art centre and a new Library. For this occasion,
Vice-Chancellor of Warwick University
Stuart Croft declared: "New buildings are and will continue to be a part of our everyday existence. We need to open one new academic building a year from now until at least 2023. In order to do this and to keep Warwick as one of the world’s leading universities, we need to do this together, involving the whole community." ==Organisation and administration==