Colin St John Wilson Architect, Building Photos, British Design Office, Projects, Studio News
Colin St John Wilson & Partners, England
20th Century English Architecture, UK Design Practice News and Information
page updated 18 Aug 2016
Colin St John Wilson – Key Projects
Architect Sandy Wilson passed away May 2007, aged 85
Major Architectural Projects:
British Library, north central London, England, UK
Date built: 1997
photo © Adrian Welch, Nov 2012
New British Library
This controversial project sadly dragged on for far too long with changing briefs and changing governments. The resultant £142m building won much praise but also received criticism for being (of course given the circumstances) slightly dated.
Inevitably it was compared to the wonderful old British Library with its grand circular reading room. It was the largest public building constructed in the United Kingdom in the 20th century. No other project, since the building of St. Paul’s Cathedral, took so long to construct or was surrounded by so much controversy. Having taken hundreds of architects to visit this building the resounding consensus is that it is wonderful inside but a little weak on the outside.
British Library Extension – Centre for Conservation, north London, England, UK
Date built: 2007
Design: Long & Kentish with Colin St John Wilson
photo © Nick Weall
Cambridge University Department of Architecture Extension, Scroope Terrace, Southeast England, UK
Date built: 1958
Cambridge School of Architecture
Pallant Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex, England
Date built: 2007
Design with Long & Kentish Architects
Gulbenkian Museum Prize 2007
Queen Mary College Library, Mile End Rd, east London, Southeast England, UK
Date built: 1986-88
£3.3m approximate building construction cost
More architecture projects online soon
Colin St John Wilson houses
Cornford House – private, Cambridge, Southeast England, UK
His own former house – private, Grantchester Rd, south Cambridge, Southeast England, UK
Location: London, south east England, UK
London Architect Practice Information
Former architect studio based in England
Born in 1922 in Cheltenham, south west England.
Died in 2007.
Education:
University College London
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
British Library interior, in a Scandinavian Modernist style:
photo © Adrian Welch, Nov 2012
London Architect – design practice listing on e-architect
British Library – Street entrance : entry gate designed by Lida and David Kindersley:
photo © AW
Long & Kentish Architects – this architecture practice grew out of Colin St John Wilson & Partners : MJ Long was a director and Rolfe Kentish was an associate
London Architectural Designs
London Architecture Designs – chronological list
London Architecture : news + key projects
London Architecture Designs – architectural selection below:
David Hockney Digital Sunrise at Piccadilly Circus
image courtesy David Hockney
David Hockney at Piccadilly Circus
A new video work by David Hockney, one of the world’s most celebrated living artists, will be unveiled on London’s Piccadilly Lights screen on 1 May at 20:21 BST.
Pinnacle House, at Royal Wharf, Newham, East London
Architecture: Mæ
photo courtesy of architects firm
Pinnacle House, Royal Wharf Newham
Pinnacle House is located at Royal Wharf in Newham – a 3,385-home riverside neighbourhood by Ballymore and Oxley.
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