Murray Edwards College, Cambridge – Miniature Concrete Model

Murray Edwards College, Cambridge – Miniature Concrete ModelModel 075_Murray Edwards College, Cambridge Miniature Concrete ModelHand cast in fine concrete. Shaped by memory. Some places feel like a quiet revolution in built form. Murray Edwards College in Cambridge is one of them. Founded in 1954 as New Hall to open Cambridge to more women students, the college moved to its Huntingdon Road site in the mid 1960s. The new buildings, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, create a modernist campus of curved

Set beside Denys Lasdun’s iconic ziggurats

until the model held the same steady energy as the original

Completed: 1958

Some buildings changed everything that followed

A small monument to a building that became bigger than itself

then refined the casting so the undersides

Central Hall in York

I wanted the cast to capture the vitality and softness that make Torres Blancas so distinctive

Their distinctive flared balconies earned them the nickname Les Choux (“the cabbages”)

A small cast of one of Britain’s most recognisable roadside landmarks

or who loves the big

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