Philip Russell Diplock (born 13 November 1927) is a British architect who was the founder of Russell Diplock & Associates.
Philip Russell Diplock (born 13 November 1927) is a British architect who was the founder of Russell Diplock & Associates.
Philip Russell Diplock was born on 13 November 1927, [1] in London as the son of Philip Bernard Diplock (a manager at Capital and Counties Bank) and Elsie Margaret Diplock (née Besley). His younger brother was Professor Anthony Diplock, former Chair of Biochemistry at Guys and Kings Medical School London. Kenneth Diplock, Baron Diplock is a distant cousin.[ citation needed ]
Diplock founded Russell Diplock & Associates, an architectural firm. It designed the 18-storey modernist Arlington House, Margate, which was built in 1964 by the contractors Bernard Sunley & Sons. [2] They also designed numerous buildings in the Brighton area.
Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London, part of the London Borough of Camden in England. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions. Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest museum in the United Kingdom, and several educational institutions, including University College London and a number of other colleges and institutes of the University of London as well as its central headquarters, the New College of the Humanities, the University of Law, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the British Medical Association and many others. Bloomsbury is an intellectual and literary hub for London, as home of world-known Bloomsbury Publishing, publishers of the Harry Potter series, and namesake of the Bloomsbury Group, a group of British intellectuals which included author Virginia Woolf, biographer Lytton Strachey, and economist John Maynard Keynes.
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Bernard Meninsky was a British painter of figures and landscapes in oils, watercolour and gouache, a draughtsman and a teacher.
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Arlington House is an 18-storey residential apartment and commercial block on the seafront of Margate, Kent, England, next to Margate railway station and Dreamland Margate. It was developed by Bernard Sunley and designed by Russel Diplock, and is known for every apartment having a sea view. The building was designed in the style of Brutalist architecture.
Russell Diplock & Associates was a British firm of architects, founded by Philip Russell Diplock.
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