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d NEW LOOK FOR PEMBROKE g e 41 ffi' A quarterly review of current architectural, urbanist and environmental issues and events in the Cambridge area produced by
the Cambridge Association of Architects
The low pitched metal roofs and gleaming rivhite limestone of the new residential building and replacement of Maurice Webb's Master's Lodge at Pembroke stands in marked contrast to the steep roofs and red brickwork of the French chateau style of the Waterhouse building which it faces across the rear quad. Eric Parry's development has closer resonances with the continental classicism of Wren's buildings, on the college front, introducing a crisp and spare elegance to Tennis Court Road, the site of heated architectural exchange in the last few years.
The practice of Eric Parry Architects
was appointed in 1987 to look at ways of optimising the number of students living in College and to consider various alter-
natives for the development of the College site. A study of the growth of the Coltege since its ioundation in the 14th century traced the changing character and uses of the buildings and gardens. This led to the choice of the large site to the south of the plane tree avenue, occupied by the Master's Lodge and the Master's and Fellows' gardens, as offering the clearest potential for expansion. EPA were then, some years later, chosen through a further selection process to design the new buildings. The initial proposals sought to retain the unlisted Master's Lodge (Maurice Webb 1933), a well-built unpretentious neo-georgian villa with prominent "drive in" entrance from Tennis Court Road. But it became clear that this building,
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