In Oxford for the Howard Colvin Lecture, I thought I would try and see the new Spencer Building, designed by Wright and Wright, which has just received an RIBA South Award.

It has been fitted into a small space alongside the existing 16th. Century Old Library and the boundary with Christ Church, not an easy task, but compensating by a generosity of outlook and big windows as seen from the street.

The front quad is still essentially medieval:-

This is the view of the Spencer Building from the street:-

Nice reflections of the Radcliffe Camera in the distance:-