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• i like the pizza express/po nana building on jesus lane. best of all there is a student common room above which is amazing (its very hard to get into it though, cos the guy,mike, will only let you in if he knows you)
• Emmanual College now that argos has gone and you can see it.
• it's cambridge, they're all amazing
• Especially on a sunny day:Kings College Chapel,Fitzwilliam museum, University Arms Hotel(stayed there as bridesmaid).Even like the Pizza Express/Po Na Na building in Jesus Lane - white columns & plants outside, large & nice inside!
• St. Johns new court wedding cake
• It's ALL about Sainsbury's guys! Although chef does cook all our meals for us, as a member of RAG its nice to see what id have to do if i were a peasant and shop at a mid-range supermarche. However, when i did my gap year in Ethiopia, don't you know, they wouldnt accept anything less than Harrods. Isnt it just ace to help the needy!
• The new houses on the old paper mill near Little Paxton. Two years ago this whole site was under a couple of feet of water when the Ouse burst its banks after the snow melted. I've got photos to prove it. I'm waiting to see what happens when it next snows. Should be good sport.

• corn exchange, colleges in general, browns,
• The University Library. Its phalic
• That little book depository building in Sidgwick avenue that won some award. Kings Coll Chapel - of course, all the ancient bridges over the cam. Looking at the buildings around Market square and Petty Cury ABOVE the shop facades. Hobsons Conduit - the gulleys in the road and the pump. Old Addenbrooks former VD clinic - now Browns restaurant
• Fitzwilliam college - crappy but loveable.
• I love the old Addenbrooks Hospital Building. Also The Round Church
• Marshall old airport buildings very 30's and cool
• Kings College

• My House on Mill Road. Although i live in a dingy terraced house, there's no place thet feels more like home than a Mill Road house, where the streets are lightened with fresh and old faces! No prejudice or discrimination allowed, just people minding their business, unlike 'Albert Square'.
• My favourite tower without a doubt is the chimney towers of addenbrookes hospital. Tallest structure in Cambridge and all inspiring as the red warning lights on top shine for miles away, like glittering stars in the middle of the night!! And did you know all the drugs confiscated are burnt there so get yourself up there to get a free high.. be careful not to go up there when they are burning the deceased though...
• the ship pub arbury
• Newmarket Road end at Cambridge United.
• The University Library building, by the architect Gilbert Scott, who also built the Tate Modern, AND the old telephone box. This is an underrated building, whose appeal will grow with time. Okay, it is very 1920s/30s fascist architecture, but take a fresh look. It will age better than you might think.
• Kings college is pretty big
• grafton centre
• Fosters law faculty
• Queens' College. The bits you can see from Silver Street are really ugly, but over the Mathematical Bridge it's beautiful - 15th century cloisters, a really ornate chapel and so on. The best thing is that very few toursist realise that it's there.
• The Round Church; St Peter's Church by Kettle's Yard; the new Centre for Mathematical Studies on Clarkson Rd/Wilberforce Rd (it's like Star Trek)!
• My house and the Coop Building on Burleigh Street which stupid City Council are going to demolish - email them at planning@gov.cam.uk to stop it and hurl abuse
• Beautiful buildings everywhere, too many to choose from
• Definitely the Catholic Church in town - more gothic than Robert Smith and Siouxie Soux' love child!
• There's an awful lot of fantastic old architecture with the colleges and bridges. There's some not bad and some quite good new stuff too. I guess I prefer St John's College, the Mathmatical Bridge at Queen's, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Senat House, and of course, Kings' College Chapel. I can never decide if I like the Judge Institute or not... it's VERY brightly coloured and New, and defniitely.. creative architecture.
• Emmanuel College Front Court and Chapel - C Wren Esq
• Newnham College. Without a doubt. If you've never been, go and have a look. It's gorgeous.
• They're all pretty cool ... but if you're into strange architecture, check out the inside of the Judge Institute on Trumpington St
• Too many to name - one of the prettiest cities I've lived in.

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