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Lords Cricket
Ground, Architect, Photo, London, Building, Designer, Image, Project |
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Lord's Cricket Ground Media Stand Location: St John's Wood, northwest London Date: 1998-99 Architects: Future Systems Engineers: Buro Happold Engineers Cost: £5.8m ![]() Lord's Ground from MCC : Photo © Anthony Devlin Single-shell aluminium semi-monocoque structure prefabricated in 26 sections off-site in a West country boatbuilder's yard and assembled at Lord's Cricket Ground. Lord's Cricket Ground Media Stand: Future Systems Future Systems is run by Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete. For years they designed visionary buildings with little to show, but then they had a starkly modern house built in northeast Islington and then rose to fame with their Lords Cricket Ground Media Stand. This was criticised for looking space age but being made using old-fashioned, slow techniques in a Cornish boat-building yard. Nevertheless Future Systems have certainly pushed the boundaries of English architecture, indeed building design globally. Lord's Masterplan : architects London Architecture London Architects World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe Future Systems : London shop London cricket ground : Brit Oval Comments / photos for the Lords Cricket Ground page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk Lords Media Stand - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt |