Cripps Building, St. John's College
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Four storey high undergraduate residences on the banks of the River Cam, laid out in a faceted ribbon that defines a series of courtyards
The building provides 200 rooms with a further eight at penthouse level for Fellows. The college’s brief also required the provision of a junior common room, three squash courts and workshops. Along with these facilities, an area at the northern edge of the site was flooded to provide a punt dock on a tributary of the River Cam.
At ground level the residence’s grid of structural columns forms a covered cloister linking the different ranges whilst referencing St. John’s other collegiate buildings.
Externally, the building’s in-situ concrete slabs are exposed, revealing a grit-blasted white flint aggregate. Structural columns and external walls are faced with Portland stone and windows are in bronze with polished concrete transoms.
The Cripps Building has been Grade II listed since 2009.
Data
- Completed: 1966
- Sectors: Education, Residential
- Address: Cripps Building, St John's College , Cambridge, CB2 1TP , United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Powell & Moya
- Project architects: Hidalgo Moya, Philip Powell
- Client: St. John's College
- Structural engineer: Charles Weiss
- Electrical and Mechanical: Peter Jay
- Mechanical engineer: David Kut
- Quantity surveyor: Gleeds
- Main contractor: John Laing Construction
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