Find new Cambridge architecture projects with building news and architectural images. We feature Cambridgeshire properties from across this city in South East England, UK.
Famous architects with buildings in the city include Sir Christopher Wren, Norman Foster and James Stirling. Some key historic figures include William Wilkins, George Basevi, Leslie Martin, Powell & Moya, and Gillespie Kidd & Coia.
Major structures to visit include the Schlumberger Research Center by Michael Hopkins and Partners, west of the city, and the more recently-completed Magdalene College Library by Niall McLaughlin.
The Sainsbury Laboratory designed by Stanton Williams was a 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize Winner, and well worth a visit.
This prosperous English university city is located around an hour’s drive north from London. It is often paired with Oxford, home to another famous English university.
Murray Edwards College – New Hall College architecture design by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon Architects. Date built: 1962-66, located in northwest Cambridge, England, UK. Brutalist concrete, unusual organic forms, set off Huntingdon Road
King’s College Garden Hostel Cambridge, England building design by NRAP architects – English student rooms architecture development, UK
The building is located on the west side of Castle Street, between Northampton Street and St Peter’s Church. It was originally the Cambridge home of Jim Ede and his wife Helen, from 1956. Four small cottages were converted into one house with a place to display their collection of early 20th-century art.
Jesus College Cambridge, England – architecture competition, architects, buildings photos – building design by David Roberts, Evans & Shalev
A clean-cut building in a simpler and fresher style than typical Allies & Morrison buildings. The institute has a worldwide reputation for excellence in both research and teaching.
The new Library, opened to students earlier in the spring, extends and complements the east wing of the 1959 Denys Lasdun College masterplan to create an ideal place for study that reflects the peaceful landscape, respecting and enhancing the adjacent architecture.
Restrained brick rectilinear blocks along the main road with an unusual north-south low-rise terrace running perpendicular beyond to further blocks in different styles
The University of Cambridge Faculty of English is 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.
Cambridge Building Designs, major architectural developments in Cambridgeshire, Southeast England, UK – Part 2 of the resource – architects, English property information & images
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
Sweet little building perched on the edge of the Cam. The wood looks a bit weary (note gradation from grey below to original richness above) and seems discordant with context but works well with the rich beige brickwork
NRAP architects developed these two houses in the centre of Cambridge. Highly specific in their design they are intended to be proto-typical of the kind of new urban housing that could be provided in British cities in the 21st century.
Clare Hall & West Court Building Cambridge, England design by NRAP Architects – UK higher education building, English architecture photos
Clare College New Court, Cambridge, England design by van Heyningen and Haward Architects – English building photos: architecture
Clare College Cambridge, England: Memorial Court, building design by Giles Gilbert Scott Architects: 20th C English University architecture
Christs College Cambridge buildings, England, including New Court design by Sir Denys Lasdun architect: university architecture information and images
A new Library, Student Centre and Accommodation have been inserted into particularly sensitive and complex surroundings at this Cambridge College. Corpus Christi College, is located centrally and occupies one city block; the project completes the story of the block by transforming a former bank hall into a library.