Graduate Centre Cambridge
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Close view of river front circulation
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This building provides common-rooms, dinning-rooms and general club facilities for senior members of the university
The river facing site presented the challenge of creating a multi-use building within a restricted area.
Open to all senior members of the college and their wives the building contains a range of common rooms split over two levels, a main dinning hall and private dinning rooms able to be subdivided in many ways. A ground floor bar, music room, billiards room, roof terrace and underground parking were also included.
The structure consists of a precast reinforced-concrete frame, post-tensioned with high-tensile bolts and locked together with in-situ concrete floors. The staircase towers are also in-situ concrete with the rear of the building containing the dinning-hall and kitchen having a perimeter column-and-beam structure infilled with limestone aggregate concrete blocks. Externally the common room bays are clad with large slabs of roach-bed Portland stone.
Data
- Begun: 1964
- Completed: Nov 1967
- Sector: Education
- Total cost: £330,000
- Funding: Grant from the Wolfson Foundation
- Address: University Centre , Granta Place , Mill Lane , Cambridge, CB2 1RU, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis
- Client: University of Cambridge
- Structural engineer: Felix J. Samuely
- Services engineer: R. W. Gregory & Partners
- Acoustic consultant: G. A. Hanscomb Partnership
- Quantity surveyor: G. A. Hanscomb Partnership
- General Contractor: William Sindall