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 | | |  | | |  | | | | | | Name:
Elizabeth DeMille Barnett
Building:
The Wren Library
Location:
Trinity College, Cambridge University
What is your relationship to this building?:
Nearly three years ago, in August 2001, I first encountered this building while on a tour of Trinity College given by a friend and alumnus.
Why do you love this building?:
The Wren Library at Trinity College integrates all the elements of life here on earth in a structure that is more heavenly than earthly. When I first saw the building with its symmetry and grace, it was as if I was visualizing music. The building's windows capture the sky and clouds, reflect water from the Cam allowing sunlight to stream through. Its stone represents the core of the earth. The surrounding lawns promise life and growth.
As an American, this building's architecture is even more extraordinary, because it was built exactly 100 years before U.S. independence.
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