Plans in for Grafton Architects’ Christ’s College Cambridge library

Grafton Cambridge 4

Stirling Prize winner’s proposals replace scrapped scheme designed by Rick Mather Architects

Grafton Architects has submitted plans to replace a 1970s library at Christ’s College Cambridge with a four-storey building designed to last for at least 200 years.

The 2021 Stirling Prize winner filed a main application and a counterpart for listed building consent with Cambridge council earlier this month, just over a year after winning an architectural competition to design the scheme.

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