Jan Kaplicky, Architect, Buildings, England Design Studio, Photo, Project, UK Office Info

Jan Kaplicky Architect, London

Future Systems London Office: Contemporary British Architecture Practice, Europe

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Jan Kaplicky Exhibition

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Jan Kaplicky Exhibition in London News
The exhibition “Remembering Jan Kaplický – Architect of the Future” at the Design Museum in London
Jan kaplický Portrait:

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Jan Kaplický Exhibition
Curator : Deyan Sudjic
Dates : 1 Jul – 1 Nov 2009
Deyan Sudjic comments: “Jan was a remarkable architect, and a brilliant artist. We can only now begin to understand his impact on the shape of the contemporary world”.

Key Projects by Jan Kaplicky / Future Systems

Buildings by Jan Kaplicky, alphabetical:

The Czech National Library, Prague, Czech Republic
Date built: 2007-

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Prague Library : design competition winner

Concert and Congress Hall of Antonín Dvořák, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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One of the last projects by Jan Kaplicky – Concert and Congress Hall of Antonín Dvořák, nicknamed ‘Black Stingray’, for České Budějovice town in southern Bohemia.

Links:
– http://www.designmagazin.cz/architektura/3058-jan-kaplicky-predstavil-budejovickeho-rejnokal

– http://bydleni.idnes.cz/kaplickeho-rejnok-by-mohl-privitat-prvni-navstevniky-uz-v-roce-2016-1c2-/architektura.aspx?c=A120814_124820_budejovice-zpravy_pp

According to the recent article, the project could be commissioned in 2016. Reports advise a planning permit is to be issued in March 2013.

Glasgow Bridge Competition, Scotland, UK
Mott MacDonald Ltd, Franklin and Andrews, Future Systems, McKeown Alexander ; Stand, Peter McCaughey, Loci

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Glasgow Bridge Competition design by Jan Kaplicky

Lord’s Cricket Ground Media Stand, St John’s Wood, London, UK
Date built: 1999

Lord’s Ground from MCC : Photo © Anthony Devlin
Lord’s Media Stand – NatWest Media Centre : Stirling Prize Winner 1999

Selfridges Birmingham, Bullring, Birmingham, central England, UK
Date built: 2005

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Birmingham Bullring

Shop, Oxford Street, London, England, UK
Date built: 2004

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Shop by Future Systems Architects – Oxford Street London store

More projects by Jan Kaplicky architect online soon

Location: London, England, UK

Future Systems London Practice Information

Future Systems

The husband and wife partnership of Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete split after twenty years. Kaplicky retained the Future Systems name he established in 1979.

They divorced in 2006 and have both since remarried. Kaplicky married Czech film producer Eliska Fuchsová in 2007. Apparently their design approach diverged with Jan wishing to fully exploit curvilinear ideas, often labelled as ‘blob architecture’. Kaplicky considered his new national library in Prague could be the grand finale to his career.

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Amanda Levete Architects

Jan was a good friend of fellow Czech architect Eva Jiricna, who also had an architecture practice in London (Ed. Adrian Welch – I worked there for two and a half years, in Mayfair and Islington).