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.
Cambridge building

Clore Gallery
Tate Gallery, London
James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates Ltd then Bain + Bevington Architects

photo © adrian welch
James Stirling Michael Wilford : London building

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
James Stirling Michael Wilford : Manchester building

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 Michael Wilford : London building

James Stirling Architec

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

James Stirling : 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

James Stirling had entered two architecture competitions in Cambridge with no joy, at Churchill College (1958) and Selwyn College (1959)

Architecture Books

Stuttgart buildings

World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

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