George Cornelius Wilson passed away on October 8, 2023 at his home in Cannon Falls, MN. George was born in Caputa, SD to Hattie and Cornelius Wilson April 1, 1937.
George C. Wilson passed away on October 8, 2023 at his home in Cannon Falls, MN George was born in Caputa, SD to Hattie and Cornelius Wilson April 1, 1937.
2021-04-26T06:00:00
The architect who worked with some of the profession’s legendary names died this month. Christian Frost looks back at his father’s career
The architect Brian Frost has died at the age of 81. His life followed the path of a generation of architects who were shaped by the desire to build following the destruction of the Second World War.
He was born in Rochford, Essex, in May 1939. As an architecture student at Southend Municipal College, his tutor Anthony Jackson invited him to help out at the seminal This is Tomorrow exhibition which opened at the Whitechapel Gallery in east London in August 1956. The significance of this event for him was still evident even towards the end of his life.
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The proposals (centre) will require the demolition of the British Library Centre for Conservation on the northern end of the site
Architects have poured scorn over Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners’ controversial designs for a major extension to the grade I-listed British Library - with one likening it to an “acoustic cover version of a high-tech power ballad”.
Plans for the scheme, which are due to be lodged with Camden council in May, will see a huge block at least 11 storeys built next to and partially attached to the landmark existing building at St Pancras which opened in 1997 after two decades of struggle and listed in 2015. It will include 72,000sq m of office space, 10,000sq m of library facilities and new premises for the Alan Turing Institute.