From Piccadilly railway station you can walk (about 20 minutes), take a taxi, or take the 147 Oxford Road Link bus, getting off on Oxford Road somewhere near the Aquatics Centre and then using the campus map to walk along Booth Street East and Upper Brook Street. For all three options, leave the station by the Fairfield Street exit (down the escalators from the main concourse) which brings you out at a big road junction with taxi rank. The bus stop is about 100m off to the left along Fairfield Street. Taxi drivers may not yet have heard of the Alan Turing Building - try "that big new university building on Upper Brook Street, next to the aquatics centre car park".
To walk, cross both main roads, and go along a smaller road (Granby Row) to the left of the Bull's Head pub. Keep straight on, as the road becomes a pedestrian walk and then a road again, and at the phoneboxes turn left onto Sackville Street. Go under the railway bridge and continue under a bridge between buildings, and where the road bends off to the right, follow the left-hand pavement/sidewalk which becomes a footpath and goes through an underpass. Afterwards, keep left under the motorway flyover (avoiding a deeper underpass ahead) before bearing right (avoiding yet another underpass to the left). After very carefully crossing the motorway sliproad, you find yourself on Upper Brook Street. Walk down this (away from the flyover). At the intersection with Grosvenor Street, cross both roads and then continue down Upper Brook Street on the opposite side. Cross the next side-road (Booth Street East, carefully again!), continue past the Aquatics Centre car park, and then the Alan Turing Building is on your right. To get into the building, go into the walkway after the second "finger" and then the doors are on your right.
The walk from Oxford Road railway station also takes about 20 minutes, and is relatively easy to figure out from the campus map. If driving, follow signs for the Manchester Aquatics Centre and park in its (expensive!) multi-storey car park (car park B on the campus map). From the airport you can take a taxi straight to the University, or else follows signs for the train station and take a train to Piccadilly (they run about every 15 minutes during the day and take 15-20 minutes). From Piccadilly bus station either walk to the railway station and proceed as above, or take any of the numerous buses which go down Oxford Road or Upper Brook Street. From Victoria railway station (how on earth did you end up there? :-) take the metro (tram) to Piccadilly railway station.
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