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Blueprint of inside of a school3/9/2024 ![]() Seizing the opportunity to build a ground-breaking school from scratch, the university headed to award-winning architects Marks Barfield, creators of the London Eye.įor architect Julia Barfield, the commission was in many ways a dream. With three forms per year group, it will serve the substantial local community who will inhabit 3,000 new homes on the 150-hectare £1bn development, but will also act as a base for educational research linked to the university’s faculty of education. It is the first primary to open as one of the government’s flagship university training schools (the University of Birmingham School, also opening in the autumn, is the first secondary), and was set up as a free school by Cambridge University. Welcome to the beginnings of University of Cambridge Primary School (UCPS) – a structure whose brick and glass walls will represent not only the heart of a new community rising from the farmland, but an attempt to harness cutting-edge architectural design for the purposes of education.Įven before the first children walk through its gleaming doors in September, the new UCPS was always destined to be a high-profile school. It passes through the ancient colleges, around the much less ancient shopping centre, and straight through the shell of a skeletal circular building, rising like some strange modern-day henge from a muddy building site on the north-west edge of the city. ![]() It’s an icy early spring day in Cambridge and a bitter wind is whipping across the Fens.
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