A striking piece of architecture in a beautiful garden setting. A pioneer in both modernism and women's education captured in this watercolour
 
Murray Edwards College is a women-focused constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1954 as New Hall and renamed in 2008.
 
The college opened in 1954 with just 16 students and began life in a borrowed building on Silver Street. It became a full college in 1972, and later took the name Murray Edwards in honour of its first president, Rosemary Murray, and a major benefactor, Ros Edwards.
 
Its main buildings were designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, the architects behind the Barbican in London, which gives it a distinctive modernist feel with exciting round bold forms. It actually sits on the former Darwin family estate, and the grounds include The Orchard and a greenhouse linked to that history.
 
Interesting facts...
Still fiercely female but in a gentile way. Students have been known to hold knitting competitions in the library.