The University of Glamorgan opened its new home for the creative and cultural industries back in November.

ATRiuM, in Cardiff city centre, is to be home to the university's Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries.

The new school brings together the creative disciplines within the University of Glamorgan , including art and design, media and communication and drama and music.

Celebrities and leading professionals from across the creative industries showed up for the launch, which was compered by actress Sian Phillips and presenter Rhodri Owen. Royal harpist Catrin Finch also played.

The £35m, five-storey, 10,500 square metre facility will serve as a platform for teaching and research in the theory and practice of media, design and cultural studies. The building contains a cinema, TV, radio and film production facilities, design studios, theatre and performance spaces, photography and journalism spaces, animation studios and computer labs.

Professor Peter Robertson, dean of the new faculty said at the launch on 29 November, ‘This high-tech teaching environment provides undergraduate, postgraduate and research degree programmes and will be the largest single university initiative for the creative and cultural industries in the UK.'

http://cci.glam.ac.uk