David Russell Hall
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David Russell Hall (affectionately dubbed DRH or DRA) is a student residential complex owned by the University of St Andrews. The original hall was built in the 1960s and comprised a series of independent blocks, or houses, named after notable figures associated with the St Andrews area. At the centre of the complex was the dramatic spire-topped facilities building, incorporating the Strachan Suite and other student services. Each house was divided into a "low" and "high" section and shared a common room. Meals in the hall were provided in the Strachan Suite for all residents, as no self-catering facilities were available in the residential blocks.
David Russell Hall was redeveloped in several phases, beginning with the opening of new apartment blocks to the north-east of the site in 2003. The existing buildings of the hall were gradually demolished, beginning in the autumn of 2003 and the whole site was razed within weeks, making way for the new residential blocks. The current redevelopment was completed in September 2006, though there are rumoured plans for further apartments to be built in the future, possibly coinciding with a rebuild of the ageing Fife Park complex which sits alongside David Russell.
Since the renovation work an attempt has been made to rebrand the hall as a series apartments (see seperate David Russell Apartments entry) although this has only been partially successful, with most references to it still acknowledging it as the David Russell Hall, for example on service buses, public signage, council literature and at the entrance to the complex itself.
