2024年12月11日 · Welcome to QUAD, your digital alumni magazine. Here you can find news, a wide range of features, interviews, opinion pieces, and on-the-ground information about the ever-changing City of Oxford and its University

The Great Quadrangle, more popularly known as Tom Quad, is one of the quadrangles of Christ Church, Oxford, England. It is the largest college quad in Oxford, measuring 264 by 261 feet. Although it was begun by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525–1529, he …

Use it as an area for guests to enjoy in between sessions, for a garden party or drinks reception, or as the main venue space with a marquee for talks, dinners, dancing, presentations, and much more! A beautiful large meeting room in the heart of Oxford, ideal for …

Tom Quad, Christ Church, Oxford Quadrangle of the University of Sydney In architecture , a quadrangle (or colloquially, a quad ) is a space or a courtyard , usually rectangular (square or oblong) in plan, the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building (or several smaller buildings).

Once Univ began to accept undergraduates in larger numbers, our medieval quad was no longer large enough to accommodate everyone comfortably. From at least 1610, members of Univ were hankering after building a grander replacement, but we lacked the funds to do so.

A selection of views of college quad and gardens. For other pictures please see the individual college tours.

Most Oxford University colleges are designed around one or more quadrangles, which are central courtyards enclosed by the college’s main buildings. But what exactly are quadrangles, and how did they become such a prominent feature in Oxford’s architectural landscape?

Mob Quad, one of Merton's quadrangles, was constructed between 1288 and 1378, and is claimed to be the oldest quadrangle in Oxford, [7] while Merton College Library, located in Mob Quad and dating from 1373, is the oldest continuously functioning library for university academics and students in the world.

English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. The largest quad in Oxford, Tom Quad, or Great Quad as it was originally known, was laid out in the mid 1500s and apart from some alterations to the line of the paths and to the terraces in the 1870s very little has changed.

2024年2月16日 · Cohen Quad transforms the traditional typology of a four-sided quadrangle into two quads enclosed within an S-shaped building. These two courtyards lie at the north and south ends of the narrow site, with adjacent cloisters that open into the Learning Commons—Oxford University's first social learning space.