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Key Cambridge architecture (alphabetical):

Accordia Housing, Brooklands Avenue
2005
Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects
Housing south of Botanic Gardens: 212 houses, 166 apartments
Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects
with Maccreanor Lavington Architects + Alison Brooks Architects
first phase 2006; final phase 2010 : for Countryside Properties

All Saints Church, Cambridge
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

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 – West Court, Cambridge
2003
Nicholas Ray Associates

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

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

Harvey Court, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
1960-62
Leslie Martin

Homerton College - Phase One Student Accommodation
RMJM Cambridge
Cambridge College building

Isaac Newton Institute
1992
Annand & Mustoe, Architects

Jesus College - old buildings, various college courts off Jesus Lane
various architects
Plus buildings by David Roberts, Architect and Evans & Shalev Architects
Cambridge College building

Jesus College - New North Court, Cambridge
2006
Avanti Architects

Judge Institute, Trumpington St
1991-95
John Outram, Architect; Executive architects – Fitzroy Robinson
Controversial postmodern architecture, clumsy inside, has dated badly

The Junction Nightclub & Theatre: The Shed, Clifton Rd, south Cambridge
-
-
There are three spaces at this venue incl. timber-clad Junction theatre 'The Shed'

Kaetsu Educational and Cultural Centre Building, Huntingdon Road
1995
Austin-Smith:Lord, Architects
Crisp white-rendered building on Huntingdon Road between Fitzwilliam and New Hall Colleges. In the form of a drum the entry slices through the solid revealing a glass cube in concept

Kettle’s Yard
1957-
various architects
Kettle’s Yard

King's College Chapel
Built between 1446 and 1515, amazing fan vaulting, arguably the most important building in Cambridge

Laslett House, Clarkson Road
1957-59
Trevord Dannatt, Architect
Stunning house using first floor wraparound though one could argue the wraparound suggests a floating volume in true Modernist superstyle and when revealed to have a slightly recessed lump of solid below is a disappointment. The result is a piece of humble English modern architecture which fits perfectly into Cambridge, certainly not flamboyant

Launcelot Fleming House, Huntingdon Road
1993
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects
For Trinity Hall

Law Library, Cambridge University, Sidgwick Campus, 10 West Rd
1995
Foster & Partners
Nicknamed the 'Bread Bin' by Cambridge students this rather stark Foster building contains the 'relocated' Squire Law library with generous atrium, five auditoria and offices. Some users of the building initially complained about acoustics and many find the south facade (for one) overbearing and alienating. The Norman Foster library squares up to (with its point) the James Stirling library to the west: these are two buildings that are quite egotistical; one gets the feeling this building could have been anywhere

Maggies Centre Cambridge
proposed start was 2004
Daniel Libeskind

Martin Centre for Architectural & Urban Studies, Scroope Terrace
-
Freeland Rees Roberts

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Campus off Clarkson Rd, West Cambridge
2003
Edward Cullinan Architects

Medical Research Laboratory, Addenbrooke's Hospital, south Cambridge
2007-
RMJM Architects
£200m approx. for Medical Research Council

Michael Stoker Building, Herschel Road, by Clare Hall
-
-

The Møller Centre, Churchill College
2007
DSDHA

Museum of Zoology - Remodellling
2000-02
John McAslan + Partners with Ralph Appelbaum Associates
£1.5m
Cambridge Museum of Zoology architects : John McAslan + Partners

Napp Laboratories
1983
Arthur Erickson, Architects

New Hall College, off Huntingdon Rd
1966
Chamberlin, Powell & Bon Architects
Cambridge college building

Newnham College
1983
van Heyningen and Haward Architects

Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Catholic Church, Hills Road / Lensfield Road
1885-90
Dunn & Hansom

Pembroke College - old buildings
1665
Christopher Wren
Beautiful asymmetric set of courtyards with subtle level changes complete with New Chapel. Sir Christopher Wren also designed the Chapel at Emmanuel College.

Pembroke College - Foundress Court
1997
Eric Parry Architects
Sophisticated architecture with close relationship to Allies & Morrison buildings, slight recesses adjacent to windows creating a subtle play of planes, well detailed

Peterhouse Ward Library, Cambridge
2006
Freeland Rees Roberts

Queens' College - Old Court & Cloister Court, off Queen's Lane
1448-49; approx. 1450-1540
various architects
Queens College building

Queens' College - Cripps Court, The Backs, off Silver St
1972-80
Powell & Moya Architects

Queens’ College – Cripps Court Entry, New Entry onto Silver St
-
Edward Cullinan Architects

Queens' College - Erasmus building
1959-60
Basil Spence
The architect's only Cambridge building - stark and rectilinear- on the Backs at this historic Cambridge college

Queens' College - Mathematical Bridge, River Cam, off Silver St
1749; rebuilt 1867 & 1902
W. Etheridge

Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site
1961
Sir Hugh Casson, Architect

Robinson College, Grange Rd, west Cambridge
1980
Gillespie Kidd & Coia
Robinson College building

'Round Church' - Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Bridge St
approx. 1140
architect unknown

St Catherine's College - Graduate Hostel
2006-
5th Studio Architects
Cambridge University – Brutalist buildings redevelopment

St John's College - New Court, The Backs, off St John's St
1831
Rickman & Hutchison
St Johns College building

St John's College - Bridge of Sighs, Third Court, The Backs, off St John's St
1831
Henry Hutchison

St John's College - Edward Cullinan building, Chapel Court, off St John's St
1994
Edward Cullinan Architects

St John's College - Cripps Building, The Backs, off Northampton St
1967
Powell & Moya Architects

Selwyn College – Arcade building
2006
Porphyrios Associates

Senate House
1722-30
James Gibbs, Architect

Schlumberger Research Centre, Madingley Rd
1985
Michael Hopkins & Partners
Schlumberger Cambridge building

Squire Law Library - Former Cambridge University Library
1837-42
CR Cockerell

Stephen Hawking Building - Gonville & Caius College, West Road
-
Donald Insall Associates

Travel Lodge Hotel Cambridge, Cambridge Leisure Park, Clifton Way, off Hills Rd
2003-04
Proctor Matthews, Architects
Cool modern on the outside but with fairly traditional bedrooms within. Pictured is the warm-coloured west facade; the east facade facing a generous new square is cool-coloured and styled differently

The Triangle, Station Road, southeast Cambridge
2007
HTA Architects
Mixed-use development, primarily residential
Ref. Richard Rogers Partnership proposals rejected by planners

Trinity College - Wolfson building, centre of Cambridge
1972
Architects Co-partnership
Ziggurat-like building

Trinity College - Fellows building
2004
Ian Simpson Architects

Trinity Hall Student Accommodation
2008
RH Partnership - Cambridge architects

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

9 Wilberforce Rd
1937
Dora Cosens
Modern building

William Gates Building for University of Cambridge, off Madingley Road
2001
RMJM Architects
Bill Gates Building
Part of the West Cambridge Masterplan, west of Clerk Maxwell Road.

William Stone Building, Peterhouse College
1963-64
Leslie Martin



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Architect Leslie Martin was appointed to the first Chair of Architecture at Cambridge University in 1956, a position he held until his retirement in 1972.

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Impington Village College, Cambridgeshire
-
Gropius & Fry

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