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摘要

The University of London student residences, which include Garden Halls, date back to the 1930s and 1950s. Over time, the need for renovation and modernisation became more urgent. Each room now has a shower, new common rooms have been added, and the architects, Maccreanor Lavington, designed new main facades - one a tall, imposing brick facade facing Cartwright Gardens and the other with dark-grey brick on the lower part of the building at the corner of Cart-wright Gardens and Leigh Street. Garden Halls is in Bloomsbury. As well as the University of London, the area is home to a number of other educational and cultural institutions, including the huge British Museum. Bloomsbury was developed in the 18th and early 19th centuries when row upon row of brick townhouses were built around beautiful squares with plane trees. In a striking contrast to the simple, classical architecture of the townhouses, stand the more monumental Victorian edifices - institutions, hospitals and hotels on a grand scale, with deeper reliefs in the facades, pilasters and columns spanning several floors and architectural effects such as rustication and patterned brickwork liberally applied.