Sir Basil Urwin Spence, OM OBE RA (13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England...
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Victoria Cross Basil Radford (1897–1952), British actor Basil Rathbone (1892–1967), British actor Basil Spence (1907–1976), Scottish architect Basil Thampi (1983)...
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Hutchesontown C (category Basil Spence buildings)
20-storey slab blocks at 16-32 Queen Elizabeth Square, designed by Sir Basil Spence and containing 400 homes. Acclaimed by architects and modernists, the...
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(Laura Petrazzini, 1971) Embassy of the United Kingdom, Rome, Italy, (Basil Spence, 1968) Seimas Palace (1980) Moldova National Opera Ballet, Chișinău,...
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wife-and-husband pairing Alison and Peter Smithson, some of the work of Sir Basil Spence, the London County Council/Greater London Council Architects Department...
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Basil Hamilton Hebden Neven-Spence (12 June 1888 – 13 September 1974) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician and military physician. Neven-Spence came...
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Highfield Campus (category Basil Spence buildings)
readers. The remaining buildings were built under the direction of Sir Basil Spence, who was appointed as Consultant Architect in 1956. All of the buildings...
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Coventry Cathedral (category Basil Spence buildings)
old one, was designed by Basil Spence and Arup, was built by John Laing and is a Grade I listed building. The selection of Spence for the work was a result...
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debate. The building is mid-century modern Grade II* listed, designed by Basil Spence. The venue's name is in commemoration of the University's former Chancellor...
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Sydenham School (category Basil Spence buildings)
County Grammar School for Girls. London County Council commissioned Basil Spence & Partners, in the early 1950s, to design additional accommodation to...
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College of Art under John Begg, where he first met Basil Spence, then a fellow student. With Spence, Kininmonth spent a year as an assistant in the office...
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University of Sussex (category Basil Spence buildings)
is close to the South Downs, which influenced Spence's design of the campus. In 1959, the Basil Spence and Partners company began planning and designing...
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Magazine, URN and NSTV. Coates Building, architect Basil Spence Chemistry Building architect Basil Spence and partners 1961 Creative Energy Homes D.H. Lawrence...
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Beehive (New Zealand) (category Basil Spence buildings)
which would house parliamentary offices. In 1964, English architect Basil Spence provided the original conceptual design of a round building rising in...
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Anne's Gate (now 102 Petty France), Westminster, London, designed by Basil Spence. Guildhall Library, Guildhall, London (City), designed by Richard Gilbert...
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painters and designers, lived at 26a Canonbury Square Professor Sir Basil Spence, architect, lived and worked at 1 Canonbury Place from 1956 until his...
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1960s. The suburb is served by St Catherine of Siena church, designed by Basil Spence. Richmond gives its name to one of the 28 electoral wards of Sheffield...
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by Joseph Swan on 20 October 1880. The old City library designed by Basil Spence, was demolished in 2006 and replaced. The new building opened on 21 June...
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Hyde Park Barracks, London (category Basil Spence buildings)
These were in turn demolished to make way for modernist buildings by Sir Basil Spence, completed in 1970. It was built to accommodate 23 officers, 60 warrant...
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Glasgow Airport (category Basil Spence buildings)
Nevertheless, the plan went forward and the new airport, designed by Basil Spence and built at a cost of £4.2 million, it was completed in 1966, with British...
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takes its name from the nearby village of Trawsfynydd, was designed by Basil Spence. The construction, which was undertaken by a consortium involving Crompton...
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practice of Wells Coates. Like other Modernist architects, including Sir Basil Spence and Peter and Alison Smithson, Lasdun was much influenced by Le Corbusier...
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102 Petty France (category Basil Spence buildings)
James's Park, which was designed by Fitzroy Robinson & Partners, with Sir Basil Spence, and completed in 1976. It was well known as the main location for the...
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the Students' Union) designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. In 1956, Sir Basil Spence was commissioned to prepare a masterplan of the campus for the foreseeable...
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(Architects: Basil Spence and Partners. Theme Conveners: C. Hamilton Ellis and Nigel Clayton. Display Designers: James Holland and Basil Spence.) Transport...
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Erasmus building at Queens' College, Cambridge (1959). Designed by Basil Spence and directly inspired by Le Corbusier....
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worked alongside Basil Spence in the planning and design of the controversial Area C blocks in the Gorbals. Independently of Spence, RMJM designed the...
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opened in 1962 next to the ruins of the old. It was designed by Sir Basil Spence. The cathedral contains the tapestry Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph...
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competition to design the new building was launched in 1950 and won by Basil Spence with a modern style which included a tapestry behind the altar (sited...
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St Aidan's College, Durham (category Basil Spence buildings)
1964 moved to new modernist buildings on Elvet Hill designed by Sir Basil Spence. The college has its origins in the small group of women, known as home...
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