Avanti Architects wins competition to restore iconic Florey Building in London
By Bustler Editors|
Friday, Mar 7, 2014
Related
Here's more recent news about a historic building due for modern restoration. Avanti Architects, in collaboration with ARUP and J&L Gibbons, were selected to restore and expand the James Stirling-designed Florey Building in Oxford's Queen's College in London.
The winner was chosen out of six shortlisted teams led by: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios; Hawkins/Brown Architects; John McAslan + Partners; Levitt Bernstein Associates; and Nicholas Hare Architects.
Avanti will begin developing their scheme and determine construction priorities.
Keep reading for more details.
"The design competition which was launched last September sought an exceptional team to conserve and restore the forty-year old building, to add additional facilities, rethink the site and achieve exemplary energy design.
The Florey is regarded as one of the great post-war modernist buildings in Britain. It is among the few surviving works of the architect James Stirling, acclaimed as the most brilliant designer of his generation...
The Florey Building (1971) was designed by James Stirling, one of the most inventive and often controversial, British architects of the post-war period. The building, which provides accommodation for undergraduates and post-graduates, was commissioned by Lord Howard Florey, the Queen’s College Provost and a Nobel Prize winner, who sought ‘the best building by the best architect to attract the best students and also research funding’. Architectural historians often group the Florey with Stirling’s other two university buildings of this phase of his career: The Engineering Department at Leicester University (1959) and Cambridge University’s History Faculty and Library Building (1964). However, the Florey remains distinctive in its response to context: the river setting, endlessly captured and replayed in its glittering, faceted courtyard façade."
Share
0 Comments
Comment as :