James Stirling Architect : Architecture Information

Key Projects Featured Buildings Andrew Melville Halls, St. Andrews, Scotland 1967 photo © adrian welch Two wings set at an acute angle with student dormitories stepped down section towards the tips from a pivotal core. Description further down page. James Stirling : Scottish Building Faculty of History, University of Cambridge - Sidgwick Site, England 1968 image © adrian welch Controversial modern Cambridge building that had problems with overheating, leaks, falling tiles, etc. Faculty of History Cambridge building Clore Gallery, Tate Gallery, London James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates Ltd then Bain + Bevington Architects photo © adrian welch Clore Gallery London Lowry Centre, Salford Quays, Manchester James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates Ltd completed as Michael Wilford and Partners Ltd then Bain + Bevington Architects Ltd image © adrian welch Lowry Centre Manchester Number 1 Poultry, City of London James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates Ltd completed as Michael Wilford and Partners Ltd building image © adrian welch with lumix camera may 2007 James Stirling building James Stirling Architect : more details Key Buildings in UK, chronological: Ham Common Flats, London, England 1955-58 (Stirling and Gowan) School Assembly Hall, Camberwell, London, England 1958-61 (Stirling and Gowan) Engineering Building, Leicester University, Leicester, England 1959-63 (Stirling and Gowan) History Faculty Library, Cambridge University, England 1968 Infill Housing, Preston city centre, Lancashire, England 1957-59 St. Andrews University Halls, Scotland 1967 Olivetti Training Centre, Haslemere, Surrey, England 1969-72 Old Peoples' Home 1960-64 Children's Home 1960-64 Cambridge University History Building, Cambridgeshire, England 1964-67 Florey Building, Queen's College Oxford, Oxfordshire, England 1966-71 Runcorn New Town Housing, Cheshire, England 1967-76 (James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates) Southgate Housing, Runcorn, Cheshire, England 1972-77 (James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates) Turner Museum + Tate Gallery Expansion, London, England 1980-87 (James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates) Tate Gallery, Albert Dock, Liverpool, England 1984-88 (James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates) Lowry Centre, Salford Quays, Manchester, England 1991-2002 (James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates Ltd; Michael Wilford and Partners Ltd; Bain + Bevington Architects Ltd) Key Buildings outside UK (chronological): Neue Staatsgalerie + Kammertheater, Stuttgart, Germany 1977-83/4 started as a Jim Stirling & Partner project completed by JSMWA British Embassy, Berlin, Germany - (Michael Wilford and Partners all design & construction work after Jim’s death) Sto building, Germany - (Michael Wilford and Partners all design work & construction work carried out after Jim’s death) Rice University Expansion, Texas, USA 1979-81 (JSMWA : Jim Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates) Social Sciences Centre, Berlin, Germany 1979-87 (JSMWA) Performing Arts Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA 1983-88 (JSMWA with Wank Adam Slavin Associates) Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Extension to Harvard University Fogg Museum*, USA 1979-84 (JSMWA with Perry Dean Rogers and Partners) James Stirling & James Gowan : Project Leicester Engineering Building, England *also known as Sackler Museum or Fogg Extension, Massachusetts Jim Stirling's Cambridge History Faculty context : Cambridge Architecture Neue Staatsgalerie & adj. buildings Clore Gallery London : photograph © adrian welch James Stirling Michael Wilford Projects Number 1 Poultry, London (JSMWAL completed as MWPL) Lowry Centre, Salford, England (JSMWAL then MWPL then B+BAL legally the same office) Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore (JSMWAL with DP architects) Music School, Stuttgart, Germany (JSMWA then MWP) B Braun Headquarters, Germany (JSMWA in association with Walter Nageli second phase by MWP) Irvine Science Library, USA (JSMWAL with IBI Group) Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK (phase 1 JSMWAL phase 2 MWPL phase 3 B+BAL legally the same office) Clore Gallery, Tate Gallery, London (JSMWAL then B+BAL) Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany (Stirling and Partner then JSMWA) James Stirling Michael Wilford : chronological list of all key buildings Jim Stirling had entered two architecture competitions in Cambridge with no joy, at Churchill College (1958) and Selwyn College (1959)

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