Jamie Fobert | |
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| Born | 5 November 1962 Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | Jamie Fobert Architects |
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James Earl Fobert, CBE (born November 5, 1962) is a British architect and designer.
Jamie Fobert studied architecture in his native Canada, at the University of Toronto. [1] He arrived in London in 1988 [2] and was employed for eight years at David Chipperfield Architects. [3] During that time, he worked on a house for Nick Knight. [4] In 1996, he established his own practice, Jamie Fobert Architects. [5]
Since then, his work has ranged from individual houses to retail, including Givenchy and Versace, and significant public buildings for the arts. [6] His practice has won a number of public commissions for cultural organizations including Tate St Ives [7] and Kettle's Yard [8] and, due to be completed in 2023, the National Portrait Gallery, London. [9]
He is a Trustee of the Camden Arts Centre [10] and The Architecture Foundation. [11] In 2020, he was appointed CBE in the Queen's New Year Honours, for services to architecture. [12]
Jamie Fobert Architects has won awards including several RIBA Awards. In 2018, Tate St Ives was awarded the Art Fund Museum of the Year [13] and was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize. [14] In 2019, the practice won the BD Architect of the Year Award, [15] in recognition of an outstanding body of work in the field of public buildings.
Tate Liverpool is an art gallery and museum in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and part of Tate, along with Tate St Ives, Cornwall, Tate Britain, London, and Tate Modern, London. The museum was an initiative of the Merseyside Development Corporation. Tate Liverpool was created to display work from the Tate Collection which comprises the national collection of British art from the year 1500 to the present day, and international modern art. The gallery also has a programme of temporary exhibitions. Until 2003, Tate Liverpool was the largest gallery of modern and contemporary art in the UK outside London.
Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, England, exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area. The Tate also took over management of another museum in the town, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, in 1980.
The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The RIBA Stirling Prize is presented to "the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to the evolution of architecture in the past year." The architects must be RIBA members. Until 2014 the building could be anywhere in the European Union, but since 2015 has had to be in the UK. In the past the award has come with a £20,000 prize, but currently it carries no prize money.
Kettle's Yard is an art gallery and house in Cambridge, England. The director of the art gallery is Andrew Nairne. Both the house and gallery reopened in February 2018 after an expansion of the facilities.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three supplemental charters and a new charter granted in 1971.
Alexander Robert "Sandy" Nairne is an English historian and curator. From 2002 until February 2015 he was the director of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, CBE, PPRA is a prominent English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including London's Waterloo International railway station and the Eden Project in Cornwall. He was President of the Royal Academy from 2004 to 2011. He was chairman of Grimshaw Architects from its foundation to 2019, when he was succeeded by Andrew Whalley. He is a recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal.
Roger Hilton CBE (1911–1975) was a pioneer of abstract art in post-Second World War Britain. Often associated with the 'middle generation' of St Ives painters – Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon & Bryan Wynter – he spent much of his career in London, where his work was deeply influenced by European avante-garde movements such as tachisme and CoBrA.
Sir David Frank Adjaye is a Ghanaian-British architect. He is known for having designed many notable buildings around the world, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Adjaye was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to architecture. He is the recipient of the 2021 Royal Gold Medal, making him the first African recipient and one of the youngest recipients.
Glenn Paul Howells is a British architect and a director and founder of Glenn Howells Architects.
Amanda Jane Levete, RA Elect is a Stirling Prize-winning British architect, and principal of AL A.
Sir Colin Alexander St John ("Sandy") Wilson, FRIBA, RA, was an English architect, lecturer and author. He spent over 30 years progressing the project to build a new British Library in London, originally planned to be built in Bloomsbury and now completed near Kings Cross.
Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd is a British architectural and design practice, based in London led by its founder Ian Ritchie. The practice changed its name to 'Ritchie Studio' on 24 June 2021. Recently completed projects include the RIBA Award-winning Susie Sainsbury Theatre and Angela Burgess Recital Hall for the Royal Academy of Music and the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University College London.
Ian Ritchie is a British architect who founded Ian Ritchie Architects in 1981. His projects include the RIBA Award-winning Susie Sainsbury Theatre and Angela Burgess Recital Hall for the Royal Academy of Music, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University College London and the American Institute of Architects Award-winning Royal Shakespeare Company Courtyard Theatre. Ritchie was the first foreign architect to receive the French Academie d'Architecture Grand Silver Medal for Innovation.
AL_A, formerly known as Amanda Levete Architects, is a London-based practice formed in 2009 by Stirling Prize-winning architect Amanda Levete CBE.
John Renwick McAslan, is a British architect.
Stanton Williams is a British architectural design practice based in Islington, London.
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios is a British architectural design firm, established in 1978, with offices in Bath, London, Manchester, Belfast and Edinburgh. The firm is known for its pioneering work in sustainable design and social design agenda.
RIBA National Awards are part of an awards program operated by the Royal Institute of British Architects, also encompassing the Stirling Prize, the European Award and the International Award. The National Awards are given to buildings in the UK which are "recognised as significant contributions to architecture" which are chosen from the buildings to receive an RIBA Regional award.
6a architects is a British architectural practice, which was established in 2001 by Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson. It is based in London, United Kingdom.
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