The 1978 Arts & Social Science Building backs on to Nassau St and forms an alternative entrance to the college. It was designed by Paul Koralek in the Brutalist style and houses most of the arts and humanities faculties, as well as the Douglas Hyde Gallery of Modern Art.
Arts & Social Science Building
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