The new building of the Scott Polar Research Institute
As architects for the extensions of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Lensfield Road, Cambridge, we have been asked to supply a description of the building. The original Institute building, which was opened in November 1934, was designed by Sir Herbert Baker, R. A. It contained a museum on the g...
| Published in: | Polar Record |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1968
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740005912x https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224740005912X |
| Summary: | As architects for the extensions of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Lensfield Road, Cambridge, we have been asked to supply a description of the building. The original Institute building, which was opened in November 1934, was designed by Sir Herbert Baker, R. A. It contained a museum on the ground floor, a library on the first floor, a picture gallery above and a few offices or research rooms. It is a small formal classical block, designed in a carefully detailed Georgian manner, and built of attractive warm buff-coloured facing bricks with limestone dressings and a brown tiled roof. |
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