Taken from King's Parade on the corner of Bene't Street. Corpus Christi (founded 1352) on the left and St Catharine's College (founded 1475) on the right.
The 'student accommodation' pic is actually the library of Darwin College - I don't think any of it is student rooms. One of the nicer examples of 1970s (?) architecture in Cambridge, I think. Incidentally the old part of Darwin (just visible on the left) was owned by Charles Darwin's family.