| Architect |
Cullinan
Studios |
| Date
Built |
2000 |
| Location |
Sidgwick
Site, West Road |
| Description |
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The Divinity Faculty Building occupies a
site in close proximity to James Stirling's
History Faculty Building, Foster's Law
Library and Casson & Condor's Raised
Faculty Building on the Sidgwick Site of
Cambridge University. Cullinan Studios
say that they were very aware of the context
when designing this building. "...
The form of the building takes cues from
its surroundings. The Divinity building
extends the framing of the History
Faculty building already implied by the
Raised Faculty building and the Law
Faculty. It does this by complementary
but contrasting mass - hence the rotunda
set against the square towers of the
History building - and contrasting line
and colour." The building provides office space for lecturers and professors as well as common rooms, lecture and seminar rooms and a library. The architects describe the library, that is housed in the rotunda, as, "... a wonderfully light and airy double-height circular library occupying the top floor and mezzanine. It provides plenty of well-lit reading spaces, including many around the perimeter with views over the Sidgwick campus."  Adding that, "... the building is made up of a series of alternating horizontal bands of cladding and windows, separated by sun-shading louvres."  |
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Divinity
Faculty Building, Cambridge University, UK
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