University of East London Docklands Campus

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The UEL Docklands Campus, Halls of Residence

The UEL Docklands Campus, The Square

The University of East London Docklands Campus is a campus of the University of East London (UEL) situated in the Docklands area of east London. The campus opened in 1999. It is one of two campuses in UEL, the other being the Stratford Campus.

The campus is adjacent to the Royal Albert Dock, closed to commercial shipping since the 1980s and now largely used as a water sports centre and rowing course, see London Regatta Centre. The Cyprus station of the Docklands Light Railway is directly connected to the pedestrian spine of the campus, and offers links to Canary Wharf and central London.

London City Airport is directly opposite the campus, on the other side of the Royal Albert Dock. The distinctive rounded halls of residence buildings can be seen from across the dock.

AVA Building

As part of the consolidation efforts by the University of East London, The AVA (Architecture and Visual Arts) School was set up in 2004. Housing the Architecture, Fashion, Textiles and Graphic Design schools, this large rectangular box was the first major development on the Docklands campus- after the Student Accommodation.

The AVA houses the Architecture School (Undergraduate and Post Graduate), but also the metal and wood workshops, computer rooms, seminar and lecture rooms, gallery spaces plus many other spaces suitable for the subjects studied there.