The project was also awarded Oxford City Council's David Steel Sustainable Building Award, being commended for its balancing of Somerville's collegiate heritage with the need for energy efficiency. Energy-efficiency measures include renewable technologies such as solar thermal energy and ground source heat pumps. The buildings house 68 students, all in en-suite rooms, and there are a number of rooms and facilities designed to help those with disabilities, including lifts and adjoining carer rooms. The buildings were made possible by donations of over £2.7 million from over 1,000 alumni and friends of the college, and by a significant loan. There is now an unimpeded view of the Radcliffe Observatory. Before the Catherine Hughes Building, the most recent work in Somerville was the Terrace in 2013, a café and bar attached to the Vaughan building (replacing the old bar in House). It is housed in a mainly glass structure, with seating in the college colours of red and black. Mainly used by members of the JCR, the Terrace has the usual pool table and bar facilities and also serves the college drink, "Stone-cold Jane Austen", which consists of blue VK, Southern Comfort, and Magners cider, as well as the "Somerville Sunset" and the "College Triple". Named after Somerville's late principal from 1989 to 1996, the Catherine Hughes Building was completed in October 2019 and provides 68 additional bedrooms. The new building, designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects, includes en suite bathrooms, kitchens and accessible rooms on every floor and a new communal study area for graduate students. The red-brick building has a frontage onto Walton Street and additional access from the college gardens, aligning with key levels on the adjacent Penrose Building. The bedrooms are arranged in clusters with kitchens and circulation spaces forming social focal points. The building's construction has given Somerville sufficient accommodation to be one of the three Oxford colleges which can allow all students applying from 2017 to live in college for the entirety of their three or four-year undergraduate degree courses. Somerville is one of the few Oxford colleges where students may walk on the grass. An unassuming frontage opens onto a vast green space looked after by two gardeners. The original site consisted of a paddock, an orchard and a vegetable garden and was bounded by large trees. It was home to a donkey, two cows, a pony and a pig. The paddock was soon transformed into tennis courts, where huge tents where erected during World War I. During World War II, large water tanks were dug in the Main Quad and in Darbishire Quad, in case of firebombing, and the lawns were dug up and planted with vegetables.