WONN 17 - Jack Atkinson 2017

Wonn17 Issue 45 | March 2017 | ÂŁ3..99

Cambridge:

Architecture | Design | Contemporary

Turning Modern

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4-5 | 2017 Apartments 6-7 | Microsoft 8-9 | About the author 10-11

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12-13 | Office buildings 14-15

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16-17 | Old v Modern

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2017 Apartments 4

Appartments in Cambridge are constantly changing to fir in with the requirements of the growing community. Smaller appartments are being built all across the city and the council are changing each design in order to fit each building in as best they can.

Some simple “blobk� dsigns have been designed but also rather unusual circular ones have been spotted in numorous locations.

The tallest building in Cambridge is also used as apartments and is located by the famous Hills Road college.

Right by the cinema and plenty of places close by to eat.

10 minutes to the train station makes this complex one of the most desired in the city.

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occupants, it offers plenty of space in all aspects. The council have announced that no more occupants of this apparetment complex have shown signs of moving as of January 2017.

“I am extremely passionate about affordable housing,� Cambridge MP Bryan May

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Making your brand new buildings new and exciting can be an important part of your design faze, especially when youre a large company like Microsoft. Character and detail are important when having a building of this scale in the middle of the city. Microsoft are doing this to perfection here, with all of the intricate little details being used to their fullest potential.

The most recent construction in Cambridge by the train station finished in early December and has bacome home to many businesses looking to set up and many housing complex have soon followed with more constuction being started in April.

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Microsoft are leading the future: New designs are being put in place on many of microsofts offices.

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About the author Jack Atkinson is a student currently studying BTEC Visual Communications in his third year at Cambridge Regional College. He specialises in layout and typography but also has skills in the Photographic and editing area. Jack has experimented with many different mediums in his time at CRC and has gained many skills that helps him with his progress throughout his career. Jack has a suberb eye for detail and thrives on making every little piece of his work completed to perfection. He has gained crucial communication skills over the past 3 years and has implimented this into his work hes produced.

Jack has completed many projects in his 3 years, many incuding live briefs and working closely with clients. He hopes to go to universtity in September in order to develop all of his skills further and to gain more experience and contacts in the industry.

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So how do you find the right balance between the 2? you have to consider which aspects of each type of building you want to include.

Whether you want the look of a modern building and risk cutting a few feet of space off of a office but also bring the appeal factor up.

The other way of going about it is to appeal to the older and more mature audience by going flat out for the practicality

Older office buildings are still thriving in the industrial area of Cambridge, the generic style is still being used and built but not as often as the new style. The more industrial looking style of buildings are deemed as more practical and do not lose any space due to detail and cutting corners. The practicality has to be taken in part with appeal, having an ugly practical building will have the same issues as a beautifuly modern but unpractical type of building

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“Architecture is the art of how to waste space”

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Modern V Old One of the more recent additions to Cambridge in the past 5 years has been that of the botanic house glass modern office.

With a capacity of 78 individual offices, it is one of the largest company owned buildings in Cambridge and partners the botanical gardens which is located behind the building. Built in 2013, it took 8 months to build due to the skill and precision needed to create the beautiful curve across the front with the stripes of green glass inbetween each section.

The botanic house glass modern office

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The castle observatory and research facility

Built in 2003, the buildings main priority is to assist Cambridge University in extensive research.

It is situated near the train station and is currently being surrounded by more modern buildings, however the University have stated that they have no plans to redevelop it and are perfectly happy with its purpose, location and style. The castle observatory and research facility is one of very few buildings in Cambridge with the old character still seeping through the building at whatever angle you look at it at and this makes it a delight to view and to capture.

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