Recent Future Systems Buildings - News:
Luas Bridge, Dublin, Ireland
2007-
Prague Library, Czech Republic
2007-
competition winner: £50m Extension to National Library in Prague
Geoffrey Chaucer School, New Kent Road, southeast London
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Future Systems Architects
Oosterdokseiland, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Project with Bennetts Associates & MacCreanor Lavington Architects
Oosterdokseiland Masterplan: Erick van Egeraat Architects
Key Future Systems Building - featured:
Glasgow Bridge
Glasgow Bridge Project - & image - by Future Systems, London, with Mckeown Alexander Architects (part of PJMP, latterly JM Architects)
People's Crossing - Architecture:
Mott MacDonald Ltd, Franklin and Andrews, Future Systems, McKeown Alexander
Stand, Peter McCaughey, Loci
Future Systems : Glasgow Bridge entries
Future Systems - Buildings:
Lord's Cricket Ground Media Stand - NatWest Media Centre, St John's Wood, northwest London
1998-99
Future Systems : Lord's Media Stand
House, Wales
Futuristic house tucked into the ground
Hauer-King House, 40 Douglas Rd, Islington, northeast London
1994
One of Future Systems' first UK buildings – private home
Meadlands Primary School, Richmond upon Thames, southwest London, England
2005
Classroom of the Future, Broughton Avenue:
prefabricated moulded GRP oval-section cylinder
Wild at Heart – flower shop, 49a Ledbury Rd, Notting Hill, London W11
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Future Systems - Projects:
Abu Dhabi Masterplan
2005
The Ark - Earth Centre, nr Doncaster, Yorkshire, north England
Future Systems - Architects:
Future Systems are currently best known for Selfridges Birmingham and their earlier Lords Cricket Ground Media Stand. The architects have a reputation for organic architecture ie where the section and plan are curvilinear. They have also completed some notable bridges.
Future Systems: London Shop
Oxford Street shop completed early 2004
Future Systems Architects - London
Contemporary Architects
Future Systems Architects - Background:
Future Systems is run by Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete. For years they designed visionary buildings with little to show, but then they had a starkly modern house built in northeast Islington and rose to fame with their Lords Cricket Ground Media Stand. This was criticised for looking space age but being made using old-fashioned, slow techniques in a Cornish boat-building yard. Nevertheless Future Systems have certainly pushed the boundaries of English architecture, indeed building design globally.
One of their highest profile buildings in recent years is Selfridges in Birmingham. Located at the Bull Ring the result has a close relationship with their wacky model from their early days of Trafalagar Square, London. Selfridges were a brave client - they had also approached Toyo Ito for a Glasgow store - but the result has a poor relationship with the pedestrian: it looks cool but appears to fail on basic ergonomic levels.
Jan Kaplicky left Czechoslovakia in 1968 and worked for Richard Rogers then Norman Foster before founding Future Systems in 1979.
Future Systems - Address: 21C Conduit Place, London W2 1HS
+44 (0)20 7723 4141 Email@future-systems.com
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Lords Cricket Ground Media Stand - NatWest Media Centre:
Future Systems Architects - Stirling Prize Winner 1999
Future Systems - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt
Website: www.future-systems.com