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Administrative Centre, Deinze, Belgium
2009-
Deinze Administrative Centre
photo : David Grandorge
Deinze Administrative Centre

Bath University Arts complex, England, UK
Tony Fretton + McInnes Usher McKnight Architects (MUMA) shortlisted

Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Rd and Finchley Rd, London, England
2004
Camden Arts Centre
Camden Arts Centre

Constantijn Huygensstraat - proposal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Faith House, Holton Lee, Dorset, England
2002

Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Lolland, Denmark : Stirling Prize Nominee 2009
2007
Fuglsang Kunstmuseum
photo © Helene Binet
Tony Fretton Architects : Danish Art Museum - Architecture Competition win
Stirling Prize 2009 Favourite

House for Anish Kapoor, Chelsea, London
2008

Lisson Gallery, 52 Bell St, Lisson Grove, northwest London
1990
Lisson Gallery
photo © adrian welch
London Art Gallery

New British Embassy, Warsaw, Poland
2003
British Embassy Poland
image © Hayes Davidson
British Embassy Warsaw

The Red House, London, UK
2001
Tony Fretton Architects; Interiors: Studio Mark Pimlott
Tony Fretton - The Red House: RIBA Award 2003

Tite Street house, Chelsea, London, UK
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Private house : architecture competition win

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Practice Information

Tony Fretton Architects was founded in 1982 and is now headed by partners Tony Fretton and James McKinney. The buildings completed by the practice in London for the Lisson Gallery in 1986 and 1992 continue to be internationally recognised as exemplary spaces for art, for the architectural experiences they offer and for their social engagement with the surrounding city. The three aspects - exemplary functioning, rewarding experience and productive engagement with the locale -are the underlying motifs in all the subsequent work.

Following the Lisson Gallery came a number of regional arts buildings that combine international quality art spaces with a strong social programme: Artsway centre for visual Arts in Sway Hampshire 1996; Quay Arts Centre for visual and performing arts in Newport Isle of Wight in 1998; Faith House for artists with disabilities in rural Dorset 2000; the gallery and store for the Arts Council Collection of Sculpture collection at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2003; and the Camden Arts Centre in London 2004, where the café and garden are established as places for sociability in the neighbourhood and London as a whole.

The practice’s work in the arts also extends beyond gallery buildings. Studios for artists have been realised at Arstway and Faith House, House and Studio for Two Artists in Clerkenwell 2005 and the studio for Brad Lochore in Shoreditch, 2008. Houses for collectors and artists comprise the Red House (2001) and the House for Anish and Susanne Kapoor (2008), both in Chelsea London.

Through the early international recognition of the Lisson Gallery Tony Fretton Architects has consistently been short-listed in competitions for prestigious projects such as the Laban Centre for Dance 1997, the new 200,000 square-metre headquarters for the Erste Bank Group in Vienna, Austria, 2008, Fuglsang Art Museum in Southern Denmark, construction of which was completed in 2008 and the new British Embassy in Warsaw, which will be completed in 2009.

Now an extensive practice, Tony Fretton Architects are building across Europe: the British Embassy in Poland will complete in August 2009, Tietgens Ærgrelsea, Copenhagen started on site this Spring and two large-scale apartment projects in the Netherlands are due to complete in early 2010.

An active writer and lecturer, Tony Fretton is Professor, Chair of Architectural Design & Interiors at Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands and was Visiting Professor at EPFL Lausanne in 1996, the Berlage Institute Amsterdam 1997 and the Graduate School of Design, Harvard USA from 2004-5. In 2010-11 Tony Fretton will be visiting professor at ETH Zurich on sabbatical from TU Delft.



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