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post updated 13 Feb 2020

Building Designs in Cambridge

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Cambridge Building Designs. We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across Cambridgeshire. The focus is on contemporary buildings in Great Brtiain.

We have 5 pages of Cambridge Architecture selections.

Cambridge Architecture : news + key projects

Cambridge Buildings : A-D

Cambridge Building Developments : E-I

Cambridge Architecture Developments : J-N

Cambridge Building Designs : O-Z (this page)

New Cambridge Building Designs

Contemporary Building Designs in Cambridge, England, alphabetical:

Our Lady and the English Martyrs
Design: Dunn & Hansom
Cambridge church building
picture © Adrian Welch
Catholic Church, Hills Rd / Lensfield Rd

Quayside, Cambridge, England
Design: NRAP
Quayside Cambridge
picture : Dennis Gilbert/View
Quayside Cambridge

Queens’ College Old Court & Cloister Court
Design: various architects
Queens College Cambridge Building Designs
image : Isabelle Lomholt
Queens College Cambridge building

Queens’ College – Cripps Court Building
Design: Powell & Moya Architects
Queens College building
picture © Adrian Welch
The Backs, off Silver Street

Queens’ College – Mathematical Bridge
Design: W. Etheridge
Mathematical Bridge
photograph : Isabelle Lomholt
River Cam, off Silver Street

Robinson College Buildings
Design: Gillespie Kidd & Coia
Robinson College Cambridge Building Designs
picture © AW
Robinson College Buildings, Grange Rd

‘Round Church’, Bridge Street
Design: architect unknown
Round Church Cambridge Building Designs
picture © Adrian Welch
Church of the Holy Sepulchre

St John’s College Buildings
Design: Rickman & Hutchison, Architects
St Johns College Cambridge Building Designs
picture © Adrian Welch
St Johns College, off St John’s Street

St John’s College – Bridge of Sighs
Design: Henry Hutchison Architect
Bridge of Sighs
picture © AW
Third Court, The Backs, off St John’s Street

St John’s College, off St John’s Street
Design: Edward Cullinan Architects
Edward Cullinan building
image © AW
Edward Cullinan building, Chapel Court

St John’s College – Cripps Building
Powell & Moya Architects
Cripps Building
picture © AJW
The Backs, off Northampton Street

Sainsbury Laboratory, Botanic Garden
Stanton Williams
Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge Building Designs
image : Nigel Luckhurst
Sainsbury Laboratory

Travel Lodge Hotel, Clifton Way
Proctor Matthews, Architects
Travel Lodge Cambridge Building Designs
photograph © AJW
Travel Lodge Cambridge, off Hills Road

University Arms Hotel, Parker’s Piece
Feilden & Mawson
University Arms Hotel Cambridge Building Designs
picture © Adrian Welch
Modern Building, Regent Street

9 Wilberforce Road
Dora Cosens
Modern Cambridge house
photograph : Isabelle Lomholt
Modern Cambridge Architecture

William Gates Building, off Madingley Road
RMJM Architects
William Gates Building
Cambridge building photo – from RMJM Architects
William Gates Building

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Buildings / Projects, O-Z, alphabetical:

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 – 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

‘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 – 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 Stone Building, Peterhouse College
1963-64
Leslie Martin

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Fitzwilliam Museum exterior with Henry Moore sculpture:
Fitzwilliam Museum
photo © Adrian Welch

Cambridge Buildings – Useful Links

The Martin Centre
6 Chaucer Rd, Cambridge CB2 2EB, UK
+44 (0)1223 331700

Cambridge University School of Architecture
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture & History of Art,
University of Cambridge, 1-5 Scroope Terr, Cambridge CB2 1PX, UK
+44 (0)1223 332958

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.

Buildings / photos for the Cambridge Architecture Designs page welcome

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