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post updated 30 Mar 2021 ; 29 Oct 2017

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Stephenson House Development, 75 Hampstead Road, Euston, Central London, UK

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Stephenson House Development in Euston
Planning won for 23,000 sqm mixed-use Stephenson House development. The mixed-use development will deliver 17,000sq m of Grade A office space and create 17 new homes including 6 at London Affordable Rents, retail space and potential healthcare use in a building designed to set new standards for wellbeing.

9 Oct 2017
David Marks, MBE FRSA RIBA. 1952 – 2017
London Eye co-creator David Marks, Marks Barfield Architects, dies aged 64

photo © British Airways i360 / Gary Eastwood

Information from: https://marksbarfield.com

21 May 2017
University of Cambridge Primary School, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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University of Cambridge Primary School
Considerable research went into the development of this primary school, taking best practice from across the globe on teaching methods since it is also a training school. It is an ambitious project and staff are clearly proud and delighted with the resultant building.

21 Mar 2017
British Airways i360 Shortlisted for RIBA Southeast Awards 2017
One of fourteen buildings shortlisted for RIBA Southeast 2017 Awards:
British Airways i360, Brighton, East Sussex:

photo : Kevin Meredith
RIBA Southeast Award for British Airways i360

29 Dec 2016
Gateway Pavilion in Greenwich, south east London, England

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Gateway Pavilion Greenwich Peninsula
The Gateway Pavilions are the first completed project in Knight Dragon’s ambitious and evolving vision for the Greenwich Peninsula. They mark a statement of intent, signalling the quality and character of the place they intend the Peninsula to become.

4 Aug 2016
British Airways i360 Opening, Brighton, East Sussex, Southeast England, UK

The world’s tallest moving observation tower opens today, Thursday 4th August:

British Airways i360 in Brighton

photograph : Kevin Meredith

Background:

Brighton i360 construction

Brighton i360 by Marks Barfield Architects

4 May 2016

Marks Barfield – Latest Designs

Latest buildings + designs by Marks Barfield Architects

New Chicago Aerial Cable Car, Illinois, USA
Design: Marks Barfield Architects and Davis Brody Bond

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Chicago Aerial Cable Car
The Chicago Skyline is a proposed new aerial cable car tourist attraction linking Navy Pier, the Chicago Lakefront, the Riverwalk running alongside the Chicago River, and downtown Chicago.

3 May 2012
Brighton i360, Sussex, southern England, UK

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Brighton i360
The architects behind the London Eye have received a financial boost to their plans for a 175-metre viewing tower on Brighton seafront. The new government-backed Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership has just agreed a £3m loan to the so-called i360 project from its Growing Places Fund.

28 Nov 2011
Cambridge Mosque, south east England, UK
2011-

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Cambridge Mosque
Designed by a team led by Marks Barfield Architects and including Prof. Keith Critchlow (artist), Jacobs (structure), Skelley and Couch (services), Emma Clark (landscape), and Bidwells (project management and planning), the proposed mosque will allow the downsizing of the existing overcrowded facility.

Longbridge Factory Project, Birmingham, West midlands, central England, UK
Date: 2010-

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Longbridge Factory Project
Longbridge in Birmingham, once the site of the largest manufacturing plant in the world, could be transformed into a new place for young people through the MyPlace initiative, a multi-million pound government programme.
The Longbridge design concept was developed by Marks Barfield Architects (MBA).

Marks Barfield – Major Architectural Project

London Eye – Ferris Wheel, central London
Date built: : 1999
Architect: Marks Barfield Architects – David Marks + Julia Barfield
Location: South Bank, central London – on River Thames
Close to: Houses of Parliament, Waterloo Station, County Hall

photo © Adrian Welch
London Eye
151m diameter wheel orientated vertically, cantilevered over the River Thames
Series of Glass pods
Sponsored by British Airways
Intended to open at Millennium, ie January 1st 2000
Opened to the public 1 March 2000