Cambridge Architecture, England : Information

Buildings for the Cambridge Architecture page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk Cambridge Buildings : A-F (this page) Cambridge Building Designs : G-Z We have 3 pages of Cambridge Architecture selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages. We aim to select projects that are either of top quality or interesting or ideally both. We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and competitions across the globe. photograph : David Butler Key Cambridge Architecture Accordia Housing, Brooklands Avenue 2005-08 Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio; Maccreanor Lavington + Alison Brooks Architects Accordia Housing first phase 2006; final phase 2010 : for Countryside Properties All Saints Church 2006 Barber Casanovas Ruffles Ltd Arts Faculties Campus, University of Cambridge - Sidgwick Site 1959-61 Casson, Conder & Partners Floating O-plan building above podium, homage to Le Corbusier. The latter is paved with a traditional grass court within, thus Modernism fuses with traditional Cambridge college design. The scale of the blocks and the columns is massive, detailing clean and materials still working many years on. Bingo Hall, Hobson St 1930 - Art Deco architecture - converted cinema opposite Christ's College Botanic Place - mixed-use development, south Cambridge 2007- Halpern Architects Bradwell's Court, Christ's Lane / St Andrews St, Cambridge -2007 Panter Hudspith Architects Burrell’s Field - Trinity College, Grange Road 1995(97) MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects Brilliant collection of sensitive yet creative buildings in honey-coloured stone / brick Cambridge Arts Cinema 1997 O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects Cambridge CB1 Scheme Richard Rogers Partnership was designing a £725m masterplan for 25 acre Cambridge railway station area - entitled the CB1 Scheme - for the Ashwell Property Group: flats, offices, hotels, public square, bus interchange, county heritage centre and shops. Richard Rogers once taught architecture in Cambridge Cambridge Biomedical Campus, south Cambridge 2007- RMJM Approved late 2007 Adj. Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge School of Music, West Road - Leslie Martin with Colen Lumley + Ivor Richards Cambridge University Centre 1967 HKPA - Howard, Killick, Partridge & Amis, Architects Concrete panels with rhythmic expression of tie-back bolts, quite brutal but intriguing. Civic Trust Commendation in 1968 Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge 1931-34 Giles Gilbert Scott Cambridge University Department of Architecture Extension, Scroope Terrace 2007 Mole Architects Cambridge School of Architecture Cambridge University Department of Architecture Extension, Scroope Terrace 1958 Colin St John Wilson Cavendish Avenue house, south Cambridge 2009 Cavendish Avenue house Centre for Cambridge 1962 Ralph Erskine Charles Babbage Road Flats, Fawcett Court, Forster Court & Franklin Court 2003-04 MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects Christ's College - original building, South Court, St Andrew St 1505-11 - South Court entry shown above. New Court, 1966-70, by Denys Lasdun Architect lies in the hinterland of Christ's College. Also by Sir Denys Lasdun - Fitzwilliam College building. Christ's College - New Court 1966-70 Denys Lasdun Architect Stepped concrete building in the hinterland of Christ's College Churchill College - original buildings, Storey's Way 1959-68 Richard Sheppard, Robson & Partners Plus recent buildings by Henning Larsen, Architect Clare College - Memorial Court buildings, off Queens' Road 1923-24; 1984-85 Giles Gilbert Scott; - Near to Giles Gilbert Scott's Cambridge University Library. Clare Hall buildings 1968 Ralph Erskine Architects Clare Hall - Brian Pippard Building - NRAP Clare Hall - West Court 2003 NRAP Colin St John Wilson’s house, Grantchester Rd, south Cambridge - Colin St John Wilson private house Corn Exchange 1983 Hamiltons Architects for City of Cambridge : 5,000 sqm Cornford House - Colin St John Wilson private house Covent Garden Houses - NRAP Institute of Criminology Building, University of Cambridge - Sidgwick Site 2005 Allies & Morrison A clean-cut building in a simpler and fresher style than typical Allies & Morrison buildings (such as the small brick buildings by them a little to the south) with windows turning the corner and the cantilevered stone box for example. Crisp detailing and strong modelling makes this an interesting and valuable addition to the Sidgwick site, which can seem a bit dead in places. Darwin College, Extension, off Silver St - The Backs 1993-94 Dixon Jones Architects Downing College - Wilkins buildings, Regent St 1807-20 William Wilkins, architect Major Greek Revival architecture, in terms of quality, novelty and quantity. Plus recent buildings by Quinlan Terry, architect 'Elmside', Grange Rd - E.S. Prior Arts & Crafts house Emmanuel College - Chapel, Front Court, off St Andrew's St 1674 Christopher Wren, Architect Sir Christopher Wren also designed the Chapel at Pembroke College Recent Emmanuel College building by Michael Hopkins Architects English Heritage Offices, Brooklands Avenue - Van Heyningen & Haward, Architects Sensitive melding of old and new Faculty of Divinity Building, University of Cambridge - Sidgwick Site 2000 Edward Cullinan Architects Unlike Ted Cullinan's St John's College Library this building feels a bit flimsy. Costing £8m and a winner of a RIBA Award the style is lightweight and softly innovative with plenty of layering from brise soleil and a light palette Faculty of Education Cambridge, Hills Road 2005 Building Design Partnership Faculty of English Building, University of Cambridge - Sidgwick Site 2004 Allies & Morrison, Architects Faculty of History (Library centre), University of Cambridge - Sidgwick Site 1968 James Stirling, Architect Controversial modern Cambridge building that had problems 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). History Faculty Cambridge Faculty of Music, West Rd, Cambridge 1978-84 Leslie Martin with Colen Lumley & Ivor Richards Fitzwilliam College, Huntingdon Road 1960 Sir Denys Lasdun, Architect Fitzwilliam College Chapel 1990 MacCormac Jamieson Architects Fitzwilliam College buildings 1994; 92 Van Heyningen & Haward Fitzwilliam College Gatehouse & Auditorium 2004 Allies & Morrison MacCormac Jamieson Architects and Van Heyningen & Haward have also designed buildings at this College. Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington St 1841 George Basevi