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.
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