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Cambridge, showcase for modernism (and how costly it is to fix)

In a review of the new Pevsner Cambridgeshire, Simon Heffer admires the city at its heart that doubles as an ancient university and a showpiece of modern architecture

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire Simon Bradley and Nikolaus Pevsner

Yale, pp.560, £35, ISBN: 9780300205961

The Pevsner architectural guides are around halfway through their revisions — though it is like the Forth Bridge, and soon it will be time for the revisions to be revised: it is 30 years since the new London: 2, for example. Aficionados have keenly awaited the Cambridgeshire volume, the latest in the series, because of the substantial new building undertaken by Cambridge University since Pevsner himself last catalogued it in the early 1970s (his first edition appeared in 1954).

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