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Tony Fretton Architects : Architecture Information
Contemporary Architecture Practice in England, UKKey ProjectsFeatured Buildings by Tony Fretton, alphabetical:Administrative Centre, Deinze, Belgium 2009-  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  photo © Nick Weall Camden Arts Centre Constantijn Huygensstraat - proposal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Faith House, Holton Lee, Dorset, England 2002 Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Lolland, Denmark : Stirling Prize Nominee 2009 2007  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  photo © adrian welch London Art Gallery New British Embassy, Warsaw, Poland 2003  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 - Private house : architecture competition win More Tony Fretton Architecture online soon London Architect |
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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