cambridge university history faculty building, 1964-1967. architect: james stirling, 1926-1992. here is another stitched panorama, this time showing the glazed reading room. stirling's history faculty building is a glass house but far from the sleek, miesian concept of one. as has often been noted, stirling offers a strange and very personal combination of industrial modern and victorian greenhouse. you can find something similar in the work of foster and rogers - say, the atrium of rogers' lloyds building - but perhaps too much has been made of the two meeting stirling in the U.S. while still‹›
History Faculty Building

James Stirling

Exterior · Cambridge, United Kingdom

Photo: seier+seier · 2010-07-20 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 5182×3228

cambridge university history faculty building, 1964-1967. architect: james stirling, 1926-1992. here is another stitched panorama, this time showing the glazed reading room. stirling's history faculty building is a glass house but far from the sleek, miesian concept of one. as has often been noted, stirling offers a strange and very personal combination of industrial modern and victorian greenhouse. you can find something similar in the work of foster and rogers - say, the atrium of rogers' lloyds building - but perhaps too much has been made of the two meeting stirling in the U.S. while still

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