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BUILDING PROJECTS
SIMON SAINSBURY CENTRE CAMBRIDGE JUDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Extracting the maximum from close study
James Parker found out how the new extension to the Cambridge Judge Business School provides the space for modern teaching methods by extracting the greatest potential from a challenging city centre site
Addenbrooke’s Hospital – with its grand 1860s facade along Trumpington Street in the heart of the city. The School is unusual as a department of the university in that it chiefly provides postgraduate study, and also an ‘Executive Programme’ of short courses, which attract business executives and senior government officials from across the globe.
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The brief for its major expansion project had two chief drivers. Firstly, the school’s popularity meant it had outgrown its site and needed to expand. It had not been significantly extended since the John Outram-designed – and flamboyantly postmodern – extension of 1995, which added two buildings behind the 19th century edifice, plus a linking atrium called the ‘Gallery’. Secondly, with the existing buildings bursting at the seams, much of the school’s teaching was in fact located in a variety of other buildings across Cambridge. The client’s wish for staff to be able to work as collaboratively as possible on a central site was being compromised as a result. The key challenge of the brief was therefore to maximise the footprint of the existing site. The director of the business school, Christophe Loch, summed up the problem: “Cambridge Judge is a collaborative community, but we don’t currently have a shared experience of the working and learning environment.”
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