Emmanuel College, Cambridge

We went to an event at Emmanuel College, Cambridge to celebrate a sculpture by Susanna Heron on the corner of a new, well considered, brick court designed by Stanton Williams and maybe only just completed, although designed in such a way that it looks as if it has been there for a while:-

This is Susanna Heron’s piece, Esquina, a Spanish and Portuguese word for a projecting corner:-

Beyond it is the reclad library extension by Kilburn Nightingale:-

The chapel is by Wren, commissioned by William Sancroft before he became Dean of St. Paul’s, the drawing for it made in 1667 just after Wren had returned from Paris, but the building was only completed ten years later:-

Beyond is the Queen’s Building, a lecture theatre designed by Michael and Patty Hopkins and paid for, I think, by the late Mohammed Al Fayeed: a beautiful building which has worn well:-

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