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Edificio Florey, Queen’s College, Oxford. La familia estilística iniciada por Stirling en Leicester y continuada en Cambridge tiene su tercer pariente famoso en otro colegio mayor, esta vez para la Universidad de Oxford.
Stirling thus left his mark on England’s two most celebrated university towns very early on in his career, joining the long chain of great architects who have helped turn these two universities into true museums of architecture.
2 de sept. de 2011 · The Queen's College Florey building is the third and last building of “The Red Trilogy” (the Leicester Engineering Faculty building and the Cambridge History Faculty building being the first...
25 de ago. de 2023 · Florey Building, Queen´s College. Source: James Stirling Location: Oxford, United Kingdom Year: 1971. Date: August 25, 2023 Category: Classic. En la planta baja está la vivienda del conserje, la portería y la antesala que conduce a la sala de desayunos.
James Stirling diseñó en 1966 el Edificio Florey en el Queen's College de Oxford, terminando su construcción en 1971. El proyecto es un alojamiento para estudiantes con cocinas contiguas en cada planta y una zona de desayuno en el patio.
The building was commissioned for The Queen's College by the then Provost of the college, Sir Howard Florey—later Lord Florey of Adelaide—who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine for synthesising the drug penicillin for use, saving hundreds of thousands of lives in the aftermath of WWII.
The Florey is regarded as one of the great post-war modernist buildings in Britain. It houses first year undergraduates for The Queen’s College Oxford and is among the few surviving works of the architect James Stirling, acclaimed as the most brilliant designer of his generation.
