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 the National Portrait Gallery, London. [9] [10]
He is a Trustee of the Camden Arts Centre [11] and The Architecture Foundation. [12] He was appointed CBE in the 2020 New Year Honours, for services to architecture. [13]
Jamie Fobert Architects has won awards including several RIBA Awards. In 2018, Tate St Ives was awarded the Art Fund Museum of the Year [14] and was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize. [15] In 2019, the practice won the BD Architect of the Year Award, [16] in recognition of an outstanding body of work in the field of public buildings.
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 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 have been anywhere in the European Union, but since 2015 entries have had to be in the United Kingdom. In the past, the award included a £20,000 prize, but it currently carries no prize money.
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Sir Nicholas Grimshaw 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.
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