Russell Diplock & Associates

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Russell Diplock & Associates was a British firm of architects, founded by Philip Russell Diplock.

Philip Russell Diplock is a British architect. He is the founder of Russell Diplock & Associates

They designed a three-storey office block for Amalgamated Dental Prosthetic Products in 1957 on an industrial estate between Addlestone and Weybridge in Surrey.^[1] In 1961, the Russell Diplock-designed Ariel Hotel was built at what is now London Heathrow Airport, "Britain’s first significant airport hotel".^[2]

Addlestone is a town in Surrey, England, just within the M25 18.6 miles (29.9 km) southwest of London.

Weybridge is a town by the River Wey in the Elmbridge district of Surrey. It is bounded to the north by the River Thames at the mouth of the Wey, from which it gets its name. It is an outlying suburban town within the Greater London Urban Area, situated 7 miles northeast of Woking and 16 miles southwest of central London. Real estate prices are well above the national average: as of 2008, six of the ten most expensive streets in South East England were in Weybridge.

The Ariel Hotel built in 1961, and designed by Russell Diplock & Associates was "Britain’s first significant airport hotel", built at what was then London Airport, and which is now known as London Heathrow Airport. The Ariel Hotel was later taken over by Holiday Inn.

They designed the 18-storey modernist Arlington House, Margate, which was built in 1964 by the contractors Bernard Sunley & Sons.^[3]

Arlington House is a 58-metre high eighteen-storey residential apartment block in Margate, Kent, England.

Bernard Sunley & Sons was a British property development company.

From 1959 they were engaged in major projects in Brighton for Brighton Borough Council. In that year they were chosen as designers for the Churchill Square shopping centre complex, fulfilling a redevelopment plan which had been debated since 1935. The complex consisted of an open shopping mall in the Brutalist style, a multi-storey car park, office blocks and an 18-storey block of flats called Chartwell Court; three similar-sized tower blocks had originally been planned. Churchill Square covered 11 acres (4.5 ha) between Western Road and the seafront, a prime central location previously occupied by terraced houses. It was completely redeveloped by another firm of architects in 1995–98.^[4] Next, as part of the same redevelopment scheme, the firm was responsible for the "intrusively aggressive" Kingswest Centre, built in 1965 and converted from a conference centre into a cinema in 1973. The bronzed aluminium roof has a distinctive jagged outline.^[5] Also in the Brutalist style, and making extensive use of unrelieved concrete, was the adjacent Brighton Centre—a new conference centre and performance venue. Russell Diplock & Associates designed this between 1974 and 1977. It was derided as "unlovely ... grim [and] monolithic" in the Pevsner Architectural Guides.^[5]

Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England that is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, located 47 miles (76 km) south of London.

Churchill Square is the principal shopping centre in the centre of Brighton and Hove, a city on the south coast of England. It is at the eastern end of Western Road, near the Clock Tower.

Brutalist architecture flourished from 1951 to 1975, having descended from the modernist architectural movement of the early 20th century. Considered both an ethic and aesthetic, utilitarian designs are dictated by function over form with raw construction materials and mundane functions left exposed. Reinforced concrete is the most commonly recognized building material of Brutalist architecture but other materials such as brick, glass, steel, and rough-hewn stone may also be used.

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↑ "Building of the month: Ariel Hotel, London Airport". c20society. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
↑ "The Building". Arlingtonmargate. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
↑ Antram & Pevsner 2013 , p. 215.
1 2 Antram & Pevsner 2013 , p. 219.

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Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, especially of architecture.

The Pevsner Architectural Guides are a series of guide books to the architecture of Great Britain and Ireland. Begun in the 1940s by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the 46 volumes of the original Buildings of England series were published between 1951 and 1974. The series was then extended to Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the late 1970s. The Irish guides are incomplete as of autumn 2016. Most of the English volumes have had second editions, chiefly by other authors.

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[SurreyPevsner91-1] Nairn & Pevsner 1971 , p. 91.

[c20society-2] "Building of the month: Ariel Hotel, London Airport". c20society. Retrieved 26 July 2015.

[Arlingtonmargate-3] "The Building". Arlingtonmargate. Retrieved 25 July 2015.

[NewPevsner215-4] Antram & Pevsner 2013 , p. 215.

[NewPevsner219-5] 1 2 Antram & Pevsner 2013 , p. 219.