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New Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 1937-40, listed at Grade II

The New Bodleian Library shows Scott's adeptness in maximising capacity: the brief had stated that 5 million books were to be accommodated within a new structure on a restricted site in central Oxford . It was not to overshadow the buildings surrounding the site but rather harmonize with their various styles and proportions. The result is a dense, muscular structure of concrete and steel, clad with rubble walling, *which was a popular material for Oxford in the interwar period. The design is a good example of early contextualism.

East Finchley Library, London, Percival T Harrison, 1938 Listed at Grade II.

Good example of civic architecture of the period. Neo-Georgian two-storey brick building with Portland stone dressings. Many surviving original features, including saucer-domed ceiling, original bookcases and counters and stair details.

University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk

Denys Lasdun and Partners, Feilden & Mawson, Norwich Partnership, Johns, Slater & Haward, Edward Skipper, Anthony Falkner, Arup Associates, Foster Associates, Rick Mather Associates, John Miller & Partners, 1964-1995, unlisted
The Ziggurats: Grade II*. The Teaching Wall and Library: Grade II. The Sainsbury Building will have to wait until it is thirty.