The Florey Building (Queen's College) - James Stirling, 1968-71. "On practical grounds, both of maintenance--the building now looks distinctly the worse for wear--and of the comfort of the students, who are obliged to contemplate each other in their box-like split-level rooms like goldfish in a bowl, roasting in the summer and freezing in the winter, the building must be counted a failure. But it looks impressive in pictures, and it continues to be admired by those who count originality as a primary aesthetic virtue." (Geoffrey Tyack, Oxford, an architectural guide, Oxford University Press, 1998. |
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