The new building of the Scott Polar Research Institute

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Bicknell, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1968
• Subjects: Buff; Polar Record; Scott Polar Research Institute
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740005912x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224740005912X

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.