Location
The Students' Union occupies the East Building, on Houghton Street, which is located in the heart of the School's City of Westminster campus. At the building's heart is 'The Quad', a multi-purpose venue with indoor seating, s stage, and social space, which is a Cafe during the day and doubles up in the evening as a club and live music venue. Two bars, the Three Tuns and the Underground, two shops, a print shop, a Gym, and squash courts also form part of the Union. The building also hosts Alpha Books, a second hand book shop.
The Executive Committee has offices, known as the Kingsley Rooms, inside The Quad. The rooms are named after David Kingsley OBE, the first Sabbatical Officer President of the Students' Union during the 1950s. Upstairs, the Media Group have offices and studios. On the mezzanine floor of The Quad, there is a room known as the Activities Resource Centre, which houses a number of the Students' Union staff and which offers societies, sports clubs and other activities meeting and computer space, as well as printing services.
Much of the centre of the Union, including the bars, was refurbished over summer 2009 at the cost of £200,000.
Off campus, LSE owns a 25-acre (100,000 m2) sportground, known as Berrylands, in New Malden, Surrey, where the Athletics Union (AU) sports clubs play.
In 2009, LSE began a £35m project for to build a new building that will house the Students' Union. The project, known as the 'New Students' Centre', forms the second part of LSE's wider estate investment plan, following the opening of the New Academic Building (NAB) in 2008. The centre will be the first new building on the School campus for more than forty years, and has an aim to be the "best student building in the world".
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