chemist and university chancellor Frederick Sydney Dainton. The East Wing of Dainton Building was renamed Richard Roberts Building after Nobel Laureate and University graduate Richard Roberts. The Dainton Building was opened by the Duke of Scarborough in the 1950s. The East Wing (Richard Roberts Building) was built in 1961, followed by the West Wing (Haworth Wing) in 1964, and the North Wing (Beaumont Wing) in 1968. The Geography and Planning building is located next to Weston Park opposite Bartolomé House. It was designed as a cluster of hexagons in 1960, and is home to the departments of Geography, and Urban Studies and Planning. Buildings in the southern area University House and Octagon Centre The original University House was built in 1963, which is one of the first buildings with glass curtain walls in the world. The building complex was redesigned and refurbished by HLM architects between 2012 and 2013, and currently known, together with adjacent Link buildings, as the Students' Union Building. The Octagon Centre is a multi-purpose conference centre and music venue situated at the Western Bank campus. The Octagon Centre comprises an eight-sided auditorium with a capacity of 1,600, offices, meeting rooms, and a lounge with bar and patio. The University Grants Committee agreed to construct a new oval shaped theatre in 1958 next to University House. The plan was suspended in 1963, and instead, the Drama Studio was refurbished from the former Glossop Road Baptist Church and opened in 1970 as a studio theatre. In 1981, the university had made plans to build a new premises and the Octagon Centre building was eventually opened in 1983. The Octagon Centre consists of a main auditorium known as the Convocation Hall, with offices and meeting rooms in corridors across two floors at a lower elevation on the southern side of the building, and a bar lounge. All of these areas are connected by a foyer entrance block. The building is connected to University House by a skyway, offering access to University House's catering facilities. Hicks Building The Hicks Building is a building named after William Mitchinson Hicks, a British mathematician and physicist who spent most of his career at Sheffield, contributing to the development of the university. It houses the departments of Physics and Astronomy, the Chemistry and Physics Workshop and the School of Mathematics and Statistics. The building is in three sections, including a taller building clad in