St Edmund Hall is universally referred to as Teddy Hall and is reckoned by many to be the oldest college in Oxford, the slight detail of not being recognised as a true college until 1957 being relegated to meaningless. The hall was one of a series that were up and educating before the college system evolved. It is named after St Edmund of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury (1234-40), who taught on part of the present site as early as the 1190’s. It occupies a small and compact area that adds to the overall charm, creating a unique atmosphere right in the heart of Oxford. Today it educates 232 postgraduates and 427 undergraduates with a few more men than women – women were first admitted in 1978. Rambling charm The exact date of establishment is lost in a very medieval mist, with various estimations ranging from 1226 to 1278. Either way it is very ancient and hopelessly romantic, even if not much of the original fabric survives – only the well shaft in the compact and glorious Front Quad. The rest of the buildings date from the 16th century. The buildings around this main quad are a rambling collection of homely Gothic and classical unified by time and the beautiful stone textures. The ownership of the land passed through the hands of several heavyweight religious types, who seemed to have encouraged academic study until the time of the Dissolution, when in 1546 the Crown reallocated the land to London property speculators. This could have brought extinction, but the close relationship the hall had with the influential Queen’s College seems to have saved it. The mighty Queen’s looked upon St Edmund Hall as a worthy cause, possessing the lease prior to the Dissolution as well as providing tutors. After a tense and uncert... ... middle of paper ... ... new dining hall and residential accommodation. His economic and bold concrete structure contains loose references to the ancient buildings, but lacks their warmth and paints a rather stark contrast. However vast tracts are now covered with ivy that softens the edges, adds colour and altogether transforms the building into something much more endearing. The college can offer accommodation to nearly all undergraduates for three years – most of it on site with more rooms in annexes not too far away. Budding chefs have access to limited cooking facilities but it is the dining hall that feeds most members, offering breakfast, lunch and dinner. The library has over 50,000 volumes with core material available on long-term loan. St Edmund’s is especially successful in sport, drama, journalism, music and the arts, with more fine arts students than any in the university.
With the Pantheon being built over 1700 years ago, it’s amazing that architects are still using features and techniques from this work of architecture in modern creations. The use of this type of classical architecture will continue to be used in works for public space due to its remarkable exterior appearance and it’s long lasting structural durability. When both Jesse hall and the Pantheon are compared it is possible to see their similarities from the types of domes that top each, their external facades, and their interior plan. While they share many similarities, the differences that Bell and Binder used in their creation make this work of architecture unique to many other public spaces.
When the King came to London from Edinburgh, Thomas Holte was one of the men that came to meet him and for this, he received a knighthood. In 1611, he managed to buy himself a baronet from the King, which meant that his family had more status and power than others. For this, Sir Thomas Holte decided to build Aston Hall to show off how wealthy he was.
There was also construction of a new paved country yard space which is enclosed by the new buildings and a new planter containing a row of liquidambar trees on the Cathedral’s northern side. On the southern side the space was re-designed to improve the quality of the fabric and render the space more useable (Myers, 2004). The new entrance courtyard and the new building were designed in a manner to show that they had always been there (Emap Limited, 2002-2010).
Robinson, Mark, and Ann Tabor. The Buildings, They Are Sleeping Now: The History of St. Mary’s College, http://ann.stubbornlights.org/stmarys (11 October 2004).
When walking through Boston's renowned Harvard Yard, one may scope out the mixture of architecture throughout its landscape. From the traditional Memorial Hall influenced by Romanesque churches, to the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Yard is like a salad bowl of architecture. Perhaps because I am a lover of Victorian style structures, or maybe because of its interior's beauty and richness, Memorial Hall intrigued my interest most of all.
The Hive Library, in Worcester, is a four-story building that is made of golden-colour copper aluminium alloy (exterior) and water proof concrete (interior). Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios designed the building, which costs around ‘£38m’(Ijeh, The modern reader, p2). The library was designed for the use of public as well as the use Worcester University student. On the other hand, Christopher Wren designed The Trinity College in 1676-1695 in Cambridge. It’s a single large room, at the first floor level. Several feet below the external division, between the two stories, lies the floor of the library (Hawkes, Origins of Building Science, p87). This gives is a better architecture proportion. The library was designed for the use of Cambridge student only. The use of both libraries explains the difference in size of the two buildings. The Hive was designed for public and Worcester university students, whereas Trinity was only designed for Cambridge university students. The Hive is bigger because larger population is using the library than the Trinity library.
Gonville and Caius was founded in 1348 as Gonville Hall, by the somewhat mysterious Edmund Gonville, Rector of Terrington St Clements, from the flatlands of Norfolk. There must have been more to Edmund than the records show, because it is doubtful a humble rector could have established a Cambridge college. There has been speculation that he was also a successful businessman with powerful connections, especially with William Bateman, the bishop of Norwich. The good bishop was executor to Edmund’s will and discovered the estate was not really big enough to support the institution, so he took control himself. Bishop Bateman had recently established Trinity Hall in Cambridge and he moved Gonville, (from Free School Lane) on to neighbouring land, renaming it ‘The Hall of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary’, making sure it was endowed with the required buildings.
It also dives into the area in its modern form, which is a tourist site administered by the English Heritage. According to the article, the area started as a cathedral but five days after its consecration a storm left an extensive damage and the cathedral had to be refurbished. “This work ultimately doubled the cathedral's length and involved the large-scale leveling of the ecclesiastical district in the northwest quadrant of the town.”[citation 33]” Then in the 1130s the work on the royal palace began.The palace at first was thought to be very small but could actually be the palace that was described in the first article. The dimensions were “170 m × 65 m (560 ft × 210 ft), surrounded a large central courtyard, and had walls up to 3 m (10 ft) thick. A 60-metre-long (200 ft) room was probably a great hall and there seems to have been a large tower”(citation
...stern corner of the site is the School of Pythagoras, which predates the college by some 300 years and was owned by Merton College Oxford until 1959. Originally this was a private house and is reputed to be the oldest building consistently in use by any university in Britain.
Grand Old Mansion: Holtes and Their Successors at Aston Hall, 1618-1864 by Oliver Fairclough (Paperback - April 1984)
Designed around Corbusier’s Five Points system and with his own beliefs in functionalism and purism, the house is supported by twenty-five slender pilotis around its outer walls. On top of these pillars sits a reinforced-concrete second story, square in shape, with long rectangular windows framing most of the main unit. The top portion of the house features a terrace with enclosed wind break around a small garden. The ground floor of the house offers no immediate discernible entrance which forces the occupant to walk around the building and eventually up the spiral staircase to the roof. In keeping with his “five points of a new architecture,” Le Corbusier wanted the building to be elevated above the ground to allow accessibility to nature and human traffic. The second point he wanted was the creation of the roof garden which would replace the greenery normally inhabited by the building and incorporate it into the house itself. The open plan of the house features his third point, which is the separation of load-bearing pillars. The fourth point, which includes the strip windows was a response to provide more uniform light inside. The last point, the creation of a thin facade instead of a load-bearing wall was for aesthetic effect to create an abstract effect on the
Originally situated at 74 Regent Street, the college was a hostel for five women who wished to attend university lectures, a privilege granted at the discretion of the lecturer. Following an increase in demand the hostel moved to Merton House at Queen’s Road, then settled at its current home at Newnham in 1875.
A crisp, new red brick accommodation block, the Fenner Building designed by TTC architects, was built on adjoining land to the side of the university cricket ground. This impressive building looks like a grandstand full of hospitality boxes and was completed 2004. The land was sold to Hughes by the university in order to raise money to fund the cricket school. This new structure offers the comforts of an impressive combination room with agreeable armchairs and daily news papers. It also provided a new dining hall which now has an enviable reputation for the quality of its food. Formal Halls are regular with frequent ‘exchange halls’ with other colleges.
Construction of the building was built in stages. The first stage consisted of the building of the first three floors. Construction for the ground floor began on August 1173, construction of the ...
The first major construction on the island started in the year 1020 and was completed in 1135. In time structural problems arose with the building, therefore in 1170 Abbot Robert de Toringy started building a new facade on the side of the church.