• of six children, Wells Coates was born in Tokyo, Japan, on December 17, 1895, to Methodist missionaries Sarah Agnes Wintemute Coates (1864–1945) and Harper...
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    architect Wells Coates to design and construct modernist houses and flats, and furniture and fittings for them. Originally called Wells Coates and Partners...
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    Isokon Flats (category Wells Coates buildings)
    reinforced-concrete block of 36 flats (originally 32), designed by Canadian engineer Wells Coates for Molly and Jack Pritchard. Designs for the flats were developed between...
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    Australian-Irish architect. He directed a team that included Serge Chermayeff and Wells Coates and designed the vaudeville studio, the associated green and dressing...
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    The Water Dancer, was published in 2019. Coates was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, William Paul Coates (known by his middle name), was a Vietnam...
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    of Sorrow (2007), and Goon (2011). Coates was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Frederick and Joyce Coates. He first saw a play while attending...
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    School of Architecture in London, and was a junior in the practice of Wells Coates. Like other Modernist architects, including Sir Basil Spence and Peter...
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    January 2018. "What We're Hearing: Magnus Englund and Matt Black on Wells Coates | Journal | The Modern House". www.themodernhouse.com. 16 October 2014...
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  • and subsequently furniture and fittings for them. Originally called Wells Coates and Partners, the name was changed in 1931 to Isokon, a name derived...
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    period Raymond Wells, a character from 2015 video game Life Is Strange Wells A. Hutchins (1818–1895), U.S. Representative from Ohio Wells Coates (1895–1958)...
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    with her mother. Coates attended (as Gypsy Stell) Los Angeles City College. Originally billed under her birth name as Gypsy Stell, Coates was discovered...
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    professional wrestling, Coates aspired to become a professional tennis player after watching Martina Navratilova. To train for tennis, Coates began weightlifting...
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  • Between the World and Me (category Books by Ta-Nehisi Coates)
    book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It was written by Coates as a letter to his then-teenage son about his...
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  • Baylis's Sadler's Wells Theatre and later at Covent Garden. When the opera company moved from the Old Vic to Sadler's Wells in 1931 Coates was its leading...
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  • 28 – Wallace Harrison, American architect (died 1981) December 17 – Wells Coates, Japanese-born Canadian architect working in England (died 1958) April...
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  • world". estonianworld.com. Plywood: Material of the Modern World From cockpit to domestic interior: the Great War and the architecture of Wells Coates...
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    Television. (Architect and Designer: Wells Coates. Theme: Malcolm Baker Smith.) Telecinema. (Architect: Wells Coates. Programme and Presentation: J. D....
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  • Coates is an English and Scottish surname. One origin is a locational name from any of several places in England, such as Coates in Cambridgeshire or Cotes...
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    as a spa town. Malvern Wells is a centre of commercial bottling of Malvern water. The population of the parishes of Malvern Wells and Little Malvern was...
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  • Philip Powell, Hidalgo Moya and Felix Samuely. Telecinema, designed by Wells Coates. Riverside Restaurant, New Schools building and Waterloo entrance tower...
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    Nicholson and Paul Nash, the critic Herbert Read, and the architect Wells Coates. The movement sought to unite Surrealism and abstraction in British art...
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  • Arup also collaborated with notable architects such as Ernő Goldfinger, Wells Coates, Maxwell Fry, Yorke, Rosenberg & Mardall, and Marcel Breuer. In 1935...
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  • Cresta Silks. Notable designers including Edward McKnight Kauffer and Wells Coates, Paul Nash and Cedric Morris worked with Cresta, and Patrick also created...
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  • architecture in the mid-1930s. The artists of the group were: the architects Wells Coates and Colin Lucas; the painters John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra...
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    mostly studio flats. Overend was influenced by modernist architect Wells Coates and the "minimum flat concept". Each apartment was designed to "provide...
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  • the earlier experiences gained while working with modernist architect Wells Coates in London, brought a modern, functional aesthetic to his architectural...
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  • 17 – Hugo Häring, German architect and writer (born 1882) June 17 – Wells Coates, Canadian architect, designer and writer (born 1895) October 19 – Gyula...
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  • – Isokon building (Lawn Road flats), Hampstead, London, designed by Wells Coates. July 17 – Circular Manchester Central Library, England, designed by...
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  • Ernest Cormier, Canadian engineer and architect (died 1980) December 17 – Wells Coates, Canadian architect, designer and writer (died 1958) December 28 – Vladimir...
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    and 2019. Coates was born in Montevideo. On his paternal side, he is of Scottish ancestry, although his family does not speak English. Coates joined Nacional...
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