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The new building of the Scott Polar Research Institute

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Peter Bicknell
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As architects for the extensions of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Lensfield Road, Cambridge, we have been asked to supply a description of the building.

The original Institute building, which was opened in November 1934, was designed by Sir Herbert Baker, R. A. It contained a museum on the ground floor, a library on the first floor, a picture gallery above and a few offices or research rooms. It is a small formal classical block, designed in a carefully detailed Georgian manner, and built of attractive warm buff-coloured facing bricks with limestone dressings and a brown tiled roof.

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Polar Record , Volume 14 , Issue 90 , September 1968 , pp. 323 - 326
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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