I have always loved Worcester College, but like all Oxbridge colleges, particularly during term-time, it’s hard to explore.
So, I had arranged an escorted visit to see the Sultan Nazrin Shah building, designed by Níall McLaughlin, the winner of this year’s Royal Gold Medal.
This is the terrace on the north side of the Front Quad, assumed to have been designed by George Clarke, a Fellow of All Souls who left his collection of books and drawings to Worcester College:-
The Sultan Nazrin Shah building is impressive, helped by the beauty of its location and the amazing, impeccable quality of its stonework which gives it a very pure, abstract, geometric character.
The approach:-
From the grounds:-
The relationship of interior to exterior:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
Ah! My Oxford college! Wuggins, as it is affectionately known, has always attracted an unusual membership. Among my contemporaries were playwright Doug Lucie, filmmaker Alex Cox, prime-ministerial biographer Anthony Seldon, theatrical designer Michael Taylor, and chancellor of the High Court of England and Wales, Julian Flaux. The college has the best colors of any at Oxford or Cambridge: pink and black. That delicious combination marks us for life.
I had forgotten you were there. As were John Sainsbury and Rupert Murdoch. Charles