This Grade II listed modernist building was designed by Sir John Leslie Martin and Colin St John Wilson (known for the Royal Festival Hall and the British Library respectively) and built between 1960 and 1964. The design consists of several interlocking cubes surrounding a monumental central staircase. According to one review, this “great flight of steps leading. . . , with a positively Aztec feeling of the imminence of human sacrifice, to the entrance to the law library, is a conception which will do much to confirm the incipient lawyer in a belief in his detached and almost godlike qualities.”