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Brunswick Centre (4136275375)
The Brunswick Centre is a grade II listed residential and shopping centre in Bloomsbury, London, England. It is located between Brunswick Square and Russell Square and is administratively in the London Borough of Camden. Planning and design The centre replaced streets of run-down Georgian era terrace housing. It was designed by Patrick Hodgkinson in the mid-1960s, based on studies by Leslie Martin. It was initially planned as a private development at a time when private, mixed-use development in the UK was rare. Building started in 1967 and was completed in 1972, though the building fell some way short of its intended size. The original plan extended up to Euston Road but the Ministry of Defence would not release the site of a building they leased for use by the Territorial Army (and that still stands next to the Centre today). After failing to attract sufficient private buyers on time, the residential section was leased to the London Borough of Camden for use as council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Hodgkinson
Patrick Hodgkinson (8 March 1930 – 21 February 2016) was a British architect, best known for his design of London's Brunswick Centre. Biography Hodgkinson was born in Putney, London on 8 March 1930. His father, Geoffrey Walter Hodgkinson was a farmer and car sale company manager and his mother was Patricia Florence Nena Vere, née Denning. As a child he lived at Little Blakenham, Suffolk and Aldeby, Norfolk. After leaving Orwell Park preparatory school, he went to Charterhouse in Godalming, Surrey then Norwich School of Art. For Hodgkinson's National Service he joined the Royal Navy. In 1950 he began his studies at the Architectural Association school in London and began working for Neville Ward & Felix Samuely. In 1957, Hodgkinson joined Leslie Martin and was given the project of designing the Foundling Estate, Bloomsbury in 1964 and Gonville & Caius’s Harvey Court hall of residence. Hodgkinson designed the Brunswick Centre, a residential and commercial building in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunswick Centre (4136275375)
The Brunswick Centre is a grade II listed residential and shopping centre in Bloomsbury, London, England. It is located between Brunswick Square and Russell Square and is administratively in the London Borough of Camden. Planning and design The centre replaced streets of run-down Georgian era terrace housing. It was designed by Patrick Hodgkinson in the mid-1960s, based on studies by Leslie Martin. It was initially planned as a private development at a time when private, mixed-use development in the UK was rare. Building started in 1967 and was completed in 1972, though the building fell some way short of its intended size. The original plan extended up to Euston Road but the Ministry of Defence would not release the site of a building they leased for use by the Territorial Army (and that still stands next to the Centre today). After failing to attract sufficient private buyers on time, the residential section was leased to the London Borough of Camden for use as council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanna Heron
Susanna Heron (born 1949) hon FRIBA is a British site-specific artist recognised for her work in stone relief. Her best known works include ''Stone Drawing'' for St John's College, Oxford, completed in 2019, and ''Henslow's Walk'' at Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, winner of the Stirling Prize 2012. Biography Heron was born in Welwyn Garden City in 1949. Her family moved from London to Eagles Nest, Zennor, Cornwall in 1955. She is the younger daughter of the painter Patrick Heron and Delia Heron (née Reiss) and sister of architect Katharine Heron. She was educated at Penzance Girls Grammar School and studied at Falmouth School of Art (1967–68) and Central School of Art and Design, London (1968–1971). Since 1978 the artist has lived and worked in the East End of London. She moved to her present studio in Shoreditch in 2006. Exhibitions Heron’s first exhibition of sculpture was shown at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1985, displaying wall works with smal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
