It is also a specialist winner in the Royal Fine Arts Commission (RFAC) Building of the year Award. It has also been announced as a finalist for the Prime Ministers' 'Better Public Building Award'.

Designed by Edward Cullinan Architects in conjunction with Roger Preston & Partners, this complex of buildings combines the thermal mass of the structure with automated natural ventilation to provide comfort conditions with the minimum use of energy.

Completed in December 2002, the centre houses two departments and comprises 340 offices in seven pavilions, congregated around a central, partially sunken building containing restaurant, communal meeting space and lecture theatres.

The Centre provides a new home for the internationally renown Cambridge University Mathematicians whose numbers include Cosmologist Dr Stephen Hawkins.

A recent review by Jonathan Glancey, in the Guardian, called it 'a work of genius'