Richard Seifert Architect, London, Buildings, Nat West Tower, Photo, England, Designs

Richard Seifert, Architect : Architecture

Buildings by R. Seifert & Partners (Architects), UK



Richard Seifert, Architect - Key Projects

Richard Seifert [real name Reuben Seifert, later Robin but popularily Richard]
(1910-2001)
Swiss-Jewish architect

Key Richard Seifert Buildings

Nat West Tower, 25 Old Broad Street, City of London, EC2
1971-80/81
R. Seifert & Partners
183m high, 47 floors - probably the most famous design by Richard
Nat West Tower
photograph © Adrian Welch
Richard Seifert : Natwest Tower (latterly Tower 42 - International Financial Centre)
Tallest building in London until 1990. Damaged by IRA bombs in 1992 & 1993.

Centre Point (or Centrepoint), 101 New Oxford Street, central London
1963
35 storeys; 116m high
Centre Point Tower
photo © Nick Weall
Richard Seifert Architect : Centrepoint Tower
became tallest building in the city when completed
glass-clad precast concrete-frame office block
Location: junction of Charing Cross Road and Oxford Street
Property developer : Harry Hyams
Building unlet for 15 yrs
First Tenant: The Confederation of British Industry 1979

Space House, 1 Kemble Street, off Kingsway, London
1962/65
Space House
photo © Nick Weall
Space House

London Euston + office buildings + bus station, London
1968
London Euston
photo © Adrian Welch
Euston Station building

Richard Seifert : London Architect

Richard Seifert & Partners - Buildings

Berners St, London
1958

Charing Cross office tower, Glasgow, Scotland
-

Drapers Gardens, London
1967/72

1 Kemble Street : see Space House

Princess Grace hospital, Euston Road, central-north London
-

Rival Lamps factory building, London
1947

Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington, southwest London
-

Tolworth House, Kingston bypass, London
1960
22 storey reinforced concrete office building

Wembley Hotel & Conference Centre, northwest London
-

Woolworth House, Marylebone Road, London
1955/56

Richard Seifert - unbuilt projects

Tower in Liverpool, England
150 storeys

Natwest Tower 2 - adjacent second tower

Melbourne tower, Australia
1980

Building Centre, Store Street
2nd prize in competition for design of façade
1939

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Richard Seifert - Practice Information

R. Seifert & Partners - english architects office led by Richard, in 1984 architects practice taken over by John, son of Richard.

Richard Seifert - Education

Bartlett School of Architecture, University of London: scholarship
1927-33

London Skyscrapers

Smiths New Court House, 20-50 Farringdon Road, EC1
1990’s
John Seifert Architects

Richard Seifert Exhibition
1984
Royal Institute of British Architects

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