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Cambridge Buildings, Tour, Photos, Architects, English Projects, Design, Images
Cambridge Architecture, southeast England
Major Developments in South East England, UK
Guide to the city's key buildings: Cambridge Architecture
This is the Cambridge guide in full, with all image thumbnails included
(ie slower to donwload/navigate but it's all here):
All buildings in alphabetical order

Allies & Morrison building: University
of Cambridge - Faculty of English
Sidgwick Site, 2004

Bingo Hall, 1930 - Hobson St
Art Deco architecture - converted cinema opposite Christ's College

Casson, Conder & Partners - Arts Faculties Campus: University
of Cambridge Sidgwick Site, 1959-61

Christ's College - entry

Christ's College - new King St building, Architects Design Partnership,
1993: Postmodern shops with student accommodation above, overly fussy.

Churchill College - Richard Sheppard, Robson & Partners, 1959-68
Competition winner, beating Stirling & Gowan, Chamberlin, Powell
& Bon and Howell, Killick & Partridge; Judges included Sir
Leslie Martin and Sir Basil Spence. Leslie Martin designed Harvey
Court with Colin St John Wilson, a seminal Modern building; Basil
Spence also designed a Cambridge building, at Queens' College.
Stirling went on to work on the History Faculty for the University
of Cambridge whilst Chamberlin, Powell & Bon worked on New Hall
College.

Churchill College - Fellows' Houses

Churchill College - buildings by Henning Larsen

Clare College - Memorial Court buildings. The central octagonal building
(left of picture) 1984-85, is surrounded by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's
severe court of 1923-34. Located beyond the River Cam across The Backs
from the old Clare College.

Institute of Criminology Building - Allies & Morrison: University
of Cambridge Sidgwick Site 2005

Darwin College, Extension - Dixon Jones Architects

Downing College, photo centre of Quinlan Terry building

Emmanuel College - The Queen's Building 1996
Another building by Michael Hopkins Architects - Dynamic Earth

Emmanuel College - Chapel by Christopher Wren, 1668-74
Sir Christopher Wren also designed the Chapel at Pembroke College

photo © Martine Hamilton Knight
Faculty of Education Cambridge
- Building Design Partnership 2005

Fitzwilliam Museum - interior

Fitzwilliam Museum - exterior
Nearby is Pembroke College complete with Chapel by Christopher Wren
and in 1997 the beautiful Foundress Court by Eric Parry

Fitzwilliam College - Sir Denys Lasdun, 1959-60
Key Sir Denys Lasdun buildings are the Royal National Theatre (1967-76)
at the South Bank complex in London, the University of East Anglia,
Norwich (1963-72) and the Royal College of Physicians, London (1960-64).
Allies & Morrison completed the Fitzwilliam Gatehouse &
Auditorium in 2004 and MacCormac Jamieson Architects and Van
Heyningen & Haward have also designed buildings at this College.

Jesus College - old buildings

Jesus College - old buildings
Jesus College - David Roberts building
Strongly articulated student rooms, being refurbished in 2005

Jesus College - Evans & Shalev building

Judge Institute - John Outram, Trumpington St: 1991-1995
Controversial postmodern architecture, clumsy inside, has dated badly

The Junction Nightclub & Theatre

King Street Housing

Law Library - Foster & Partners, Sidgwick Campus
Another architectural project by Foster
& Partners - Glasgow Bridge

Centre for Mathematical Sciences - Edward
Cullinan Architects 2003
Maths Campus off Clarkson Rd in West Cambridge

Michael Stoker Building by Ralph Erskine in the 1980s, adjacent to
Clare Hall

Town Centre building, Sidney St opposite Christ's College
Part of the shopping precinct on Petty Cury adjacent to Lion's Yard

Modern building, 9 Wilberforce Rd - Dora Cosens, 1937
More Modern Cambridge Architecture: see Trevor Dannatt's house
under 'T'

Moeller Building, Huntingdon Road

New Hall College - Chamberlin,
Powell & Bon Architects, 1962-66

Our Lady and the English Martyrs: Catholic Church, Hills Road

Porters Lodge built over garage, West Cambridge

Queens' College - old buildings

Queens' College - Cripps Court: Powell
& Moya Architects

Queens' College - Mathematical Bridge over River Cam
Basil Spence completed his only Cambridge building - the Erasmus building
- 1959-60 at Queens' College

Robinson College - Gillespie Kidd & Coia, 1977-80

Robinson College - Gillespie Kidd & Coia
Another building by GK&C: Cardross
Seminary

Church of the Holy Sepulchre - 'Round Church', Bridge St

Sidgwick Site, view - Stirling's Library with Allies & Morrison
building beyond

Spiritualist Church, off Bridge St

St John's College - old buildings west of Cam: New Court

St John's College - old buildings west of Cam: New Court

St John's College - 'Bridge of Sighs' over River Cam

St John's College - old building

St John's College - Edward Cullinan building

St John's College - Cripps Building: Powell & Moya Architects
Exquisite in conception + articulation, floating above the grounds

St John's College - Cripps Building: Powell & Moya Architects

St John's College - Cripps Building: Powell & Moya Architects

Faculty of History (Library centre) - James Stirling, Architect, 1964-68
Controversial modern Cambridge building that had probelms with overheating,
leaks, falling tiles, etc. James Stirling had entered two architecture
competitions in Cambridge with no joy, at Churchill College (1958)
and Selwyn College (1959).
Another building by James
Stirling - St Andrews University Halls of Residence

Faculty of Divinity Building, University of Cambridge - Sidgwick Site:
Edward Cullinan Architects 2000 £8m RIBA Award
Another building by Edward
Cullinan Architects - Edinburgh Botanic Gardens

Housing south of Botanic Gardens - Feilden
Clegg Bradley Architects

Timber-framed house, Bridge St: 16th C.

Travel Lodge Hotel

House - Trevord Dannatt, Architect
More Modern Houses

University Arms Hotel: Modern Building - Feilden & Mawson, 1965-66
Regent St, Parker's Piece

William Gates Building for
University of Cambridge - RMJM, 1999-2001

picture : Dennis Gilbert/View
Quayside by NRAP

Peter Cook/View
King's College Garden Hostel
by NRAP

picture : Dennis Gilbert/View
Clare Hall - Brian Pippard Building
by NRAP

picture : Dennis Gilbert/View
Clare Hall - West Court by
NRAP

photo : Tim Soar
Covent Garden Houses by NRAP

Wolfson College - Modern College Housing
evoking Arts & Crafts houses such as 'Elmside' by E.S. Prior on
Grange Rd.
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Stirling Prize
Cambridge Architecture not yet included:
Foundress Court, Pembroke College - Eric Parry Architects 1997
Jerwood Library, Trinity Hall, Freeland Rees Roberts 1999
Historic Cambridge Buildings - all by Giles
Gilbert Scott:
Pembroke College
Clare College
Cambridge University Library
Cambridge Architect Studios

World Architecture : e-architect
- key buildings across the globe
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