Richard Horden, Architect, Practice, Photos, Studio, England, Office, Images

Richard Horden Architect : Architecture

Contemporary Architecture Practice, UK

Key Richard Horden Building - Glasgow Tower Glasgow Tower, Pacific Quay, Scotland photograph © Keith Hunter Richard Horden - Glasgow Tower Current architecture practice: Horden Cherry Lee Architects Richard Horden Architect- Projects Buildings + designs by architect Richard Horden, alphabetical: Habitable Bridge, London - House on Evening Hill, Poole Harbour, Poole, Dorset, England 2003 Richard Horden with Horden Cherry Lee Architects Robin Hood Gardens Housing Redevelopment proposals, east London 2007 Skihaus, Zermatt, Switzerland/Italy - Wing Tower, Lake Zurich - Richard Horden - early building Wildwood - house, 12A Western Avenue, Poole, Dorset, southwest England 1971-75 Steel-framed pared down house influenced probaby by Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworh House (& maybe Philip Johnson's one in Connecticut), white concrete infill. European Millennium Tower Competition, Glasgow: building image © Adrian Welch Richard Horden Architects were awarded first prize for their ‘Wing Tower’ but controversially the project was essentially taken over by BDP Architects, Glasgow. The Glasgow Tower brief required a 100 metre high tower. The Tower was to include a viewing platform, restaurant and exhibition space. Richard Horden worked with aeronautical engineer Peter Heppel, to design a vertical wing that rotated with the wind direction. Being visible for miles around, it allows Glaswegians to tell which way the wind is blowing! The Glasgow Tower was the first of its kind to rotate to reduce the aerodynamic forces on the structure. Queen’s Stand, Epsom Racecourse, Surrey, England 1993 Richard Horden Associates - RIBA Awards 1993 National Award More projects online soon

Richard Horden - Practice Information

Architect studio led by Richard based in London, England

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Richard Horden - Background on the Architect


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Richard Horden is an English architect and yachtsman. Richard became well-known in the Eighties for light simple buildings that used yacht technology and yacht iconology. His modern rectilinear buildings were part of the Hi-Tech style that swept England, key architects being Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and Chris Wilkinson.

Richard Horden Architects tried to transfer the elegance of sailing and the beauty and technology of the modern aircraft into architecture, in a way reminiscent of architect Le Corbusier's extolling of the modern technology of cars and planes. However, unlike Le Corbusier, Richard aimed for light prefabricated buildings.



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