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Ralph Erskine Architect : Architecture
Contemporary Architecture Practice, Europe: Swedish / British Design Office Information
post updated 11 February 2023
Ralph Erskine Architects – Major Building
Key Building by Ralph Erskine
The Ark Offices, Hammersmith, west London, UK
Date built: 1989
photograph © Nick Weall
redevelopment proposed by DN-A in 2006
Seminal Ralph Erskine Project
Byker Wall, central Newcastle, northeast England, UK
Date built: 1982
photos © Adrian Welch
Byker Wall
Byker Wall, along with the low rise dwellings built to its south, replaced Victorian slum terraced housing. There were nearly 1200 houses on the site at Byker. They had been condemned as unfit for human habitation in 1953, with demolition starting much later in 1966.
The new housing block was designed by the notable architect Ralph Erskine assisted by executive architect Vernon Gracie. Design began in 1968 and construction took place between 1969 and 1982. The architects opened an office on site to develop communication and trust between the existing residents. Existing buildings were to be demolished as the new accommodation was built.
Ralph practiced as part of Erskine Tovatt Architects and planners
Winner of RIBA Gold Medal in 1987
Recent Buildings by Erskine Tovatt Architects
Greenwich Millennium Village Phase 1, North Greenwich, London, England, UK
Dates built: 1998 – 2007
for Greenwich Millennium Village Ltd
540 housing units
Ralph Erskine Projects
Key Building Designs by this Swedish / British architectural studio:
Bo-01 Housing, Malmö, Sweden
Dates built: 2000-01
Turisthotell Borga Fjäll, Sweden
Dates built: 2000-02
Ship to Bosnia
Date built: 2002
English Building Projects by the Design Practice, chronological:
Greenwich Millennium Village, southeast London, UK
Date built: 1997-
Ark, Hammersmith, west London, UK
1989-92
photograph © Nick Weall
The Ark London : key building by this architecture firm
Crossrail, London, England, UK
Date built: 1992
Byker Wall – social housing, Newcastle, northeast England, UK
1968-82
Studlands park, Newmarket, southeast England, UK
Date built: 1969
Clare Hall, Cambridge, southeast England
Date built: 1968
Killingworth, nr Newcastle, northeast England
Date built: 1968
Centre for Cambridge, southeast England
Date built: 1962
Swedish Projects by Ralph Erskine, chronological:
Frescati Campus – Lawyers’ Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
Date built: 1990
City Terminal / World Trade Center, Stockholm, Sweden
1989
Design: Erskine, Arken, Tengbom
Stockholm University Library & Student Union, Sweden
–
Frescati Campus – Sports Hall, Stockholm University, Sweden
1983
Frescati Campus – Students’ Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
1981
Nya Bruket, Sandviken, Sweden
1978
Kiruna town centre, Sweden
–
Cardboard factory, Fors, Dalecarlia, Sweden
1952
More buildings by this architect online soon
Location: London, south east England, UK
Swedish Architect Practice Information
Ralph was raised as a Quaker
Born 1914, London; died in 2005
Swedish Architects Practices
Erskine emigrated 1939 to Sweden due to pacifist beliefs – a neutral country in World War 2.
He was a member of Team X
Related architects:
Giancarlo De Carlo
Aldo Van Eyck
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Newcastle Building Designs
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Dogger Bank Wind Farm Operations and Maintenance Base, Port of Tyne, east of Newcastle, Northeast England, UK
Design: Ryder Architecture
image courtesy of architects practice
Dogger Bank Wind Farm Operations and Maintenance Base
Tyne Bridge
Tyne Bridge
Millennium Bridge
Millennium Bridge
English Building Designs
New English Architectural Designs : current, chronological list
English Residential Architecture
Flimwell Park, Hawkhurst Rd, Flimwell, Ticehurst, Wadhurst, East Sussex, England, UK
Design: The Architecture Ensemble
photo : The Shoot Lab
Flimwell Park
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