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Cowan Court, Churchill College

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Cowan Court, Churchill College

The University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. 2012 2016

The now Grade II-listed Churchill College is one of the finest large-scale assemblies of its time. Completed in the early 1960s as a collection of low courtyards, its buildings were designed by Sheppard Robson for one of the most important architectural competitions of the post-war period. The college’s characteristic brick and shuttered concrete architecture became one of the defining motifs of English Brutalism.

Built almost entirely of timber, a new sustainable 68-bedroom hall of residence inverts the traditional relationship in Cambridge between court and courtyard: instead, private lawns typical of a college setting surround the building with bedrooms that face out onto views of the expansive grounds and cricket field. The interior courtyard is filled with a forest of birch trees, offering a shared space for refuge and meditation.