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In the book that he edited,
"St John’s College, Cambridge: A History",
Peter Lineham says of this building that, "...
At a cost of £1.7 million, the Fisher
Building was designed as 'a prestige
Building', and - as the new Domestic
Bursar, Col. Richard Robinson, gave fair
warning - ‘it should be maintained that
way’ Student architectural opinion
held it to be ‘not a great building but a
sensible one. Retiring, perhaps a
little modest, apologetic even, its
architectural aspirations are not high’ -
……… but in course, hardly worthy to keep
company with the Cripps Building itself
(that ‘extremely distinguished piece of
architecture, almost without contemporary
peer’, never mind its numerous structural
peccadilloes)."
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