Plane geometry: Sheppard Robson's aeronautical university design
If you take a pre-war aircraft hangar, insert a large ziggurat and extend it with a glass tetrahedron, what does that create? The answer is Sheppard Robson’s spectacular academic building for Cranfield university.
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