New Court “Typewriter”, Christ’s College Cambridge

£45.00

New Court “Typewriter”, Christ’s College Cambridge

A Brutalist original, finely detailed in concrete by Spaceplay.

New Court “Typewriter”, Christ’s College Cambridge

Name: New Court “Typewriter”, Christ’s College Cambridge
Brand: Spaceplay
SKU: MINI_074
Price: 45.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

£45.00

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Building Information

Location: New Court, Christ’s College, Cambridge, UK
Architect: Sir Denys Lasdun & Partners
Completed: 1966–1970
Status: In use as undergraduate accommodation and social spaces

Brief Overview:
New Court was designed as a major expansion of Christ’s College, providing 66 student bedrooms, fellows’ apartments and shared facilities arranged on a series of stepped concrete terraces. Its tiered form and projecting study bays earned it the nickname “The Typewriter”, while its internal courts, decks and planted platforms create a self-contained world within the college. Regarded by some critics as an “arrogant intrusion” and by others as a superb example of late modern student housing, it remains one of Lasdun’s most distinctive Brutalist works in Cambridge.

Making my concrete model

New Court “Typewriter”, Christ’s College Cambridge

If you've crossed its terraces on the way to a supervision, the New Court miniature concrete model will be instantly familiar. Denys Lasdun's stepped building for Christ's College was completed between 1966 and 1970. Its tiered concrete terraces and projecting study bays earned it the nickname "The Typewriter", and it has been called both an arrogant intrusion and a superb piece of student housing. This concrete model of the Christ's College Typewriter keeps those stepped layers in a 7cm concrete sculpture for a desk or shelf. It's made for Christ's students and alumni, Cambridge residents who know it from King Street, and fans of Lasdun and Brutalist architecture, and it's a graduation gift with a story. Pair it with the National Theatre model for two sides of Lasdun. Each one is hand-cast in solid concrete.