
Friday 17 November 2000
Video-on-Demand
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The lecture will feature a
number of recent UK projects both from his practice and from
shortlisted projects for this year's RIBA
Stirling Prize. These include the Peckham Library by Alsop and
Stormer; the Millennium Wheel by Marks Barfield; the Jubilee Line
stations by London Underground in conjunction with Wilkinson, Foster
and Alsop; the offices for Lloyds Registry of Shipping; the Daiwa
Bank; the Millennium Dome and the Montevetro housing scheme. A
number of the projects have significant technical aspects in terms
of urban design and sustainability.
Marco Goldschmied is president of the Royal
Institute of British Architects (RIBA), a member of the
Architects' Registration Board and Managing Director/co-founder of
the Richard Rogers
Partnership, a leading architectural practice, best known for
such architectural icons as the Pompidou Centre in Paris (with Renzo
Piano) and the Lloyd's of London building. Marco Goldschmied has
been extremely influential on many of the major projects undertaken
by the practice, including the Montevetro Building, an acclaimed
residential complex in Battersea; the Channel 4 headquarters; and
the Millennium Dome at Greenwich, as well as spearheading strategic
planning for Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport
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