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Ron Herron, London: 20th Century British Architecture Practice Information + Images

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Herron Associates – Key Projects

Featured Buildings by Ron Herron, alphabetical:

Imagination Building, Store St, off Tottenham Court Road, central-north London
Date built: 1989
Store Street curved building entry facade:

photo © Adrian Welch
Imagination Building
£4.5m
Beautiful conversion by Ron Herron using tensile canopy over old schoolyard between tall street and rear blocks, (Ed. I worked there for a while, the best building I’ve ever been lucky to work inside).

Natural History Museum – Dinosaur Gallery, Cromwell Road, southwest London
Date built: 1992
Design: Herron Associates / Imagination
Natural History Museum

More architecture projects by architect Ron Herron online soon

Location: London, south east England, UK

Ron Herron Architect Practice Information

Ron Herron was part of Archigram, alongside designers such as Peter Cook, who went on to be Head of School at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

The son of Ron Herron, Simon, taught architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London

Book:

Imagination Headquarters: Herron Associates (Architecture in Detail) Paperback – 1 Jul 1992
by Sutherland Lyall (Author)
Phaidon, 1992 – Architecture – 60 pages

Part of a series of technically informative monographs embracing a broad spectrum of internationally renowned buildings. This work deals with the Imagination headquarters in London, and includes a comprehensive set of technical drawings and working details.

Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Imagination-Headquarters-Herron-Associates-Architecture/dp/0714827649

Only occasionally do refurbishments of historic structures achieve a quality greater than that of the existing building. This is just such a project. Herron fuses old and new technologies with a spatial panache, making this one of London’s most exciting recent buildings.

Volume 8 of Architecture in detail

Author Sutherland Lyall is a writer based in London.

ISBN 0714827649, 9780714827643
Location: London, England, UK.

Herron Associates was a London‑based architectural practice founded in 1981 by English architect Ron Herron (1930–1994), together with his sons Andrew and Simon Herron. The firm carried forward Herron’s distinctive architectural voice following his influential earlier work with the experimental group Archigram.

Herron Associates is best known for built work in London, combining inventive spatial ideas with sensitive interventions in historic urban fabric. One of its most celebrated projects is the Imagination Building in central London, a creative retrofit of a Victorian schoolyard site that transforms a narrow courtyard into a dramatic atrium with tensile canopy and bridge connections.