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Architect of the week: Richard MacCormac

August 1st, 2014

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The modernist architect Sir Richard MacCormac (September 1938 – July 2014), who sadly died last week, was the co-founder of MJP Architects and a former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. MacCormac’s projects include Southwark tube station, the Wellcome Wing at the Science Museum, the British Embassy in Bangkok and a number of Oxbridge college buildings. He designed the new Egton Wing of the BBC’s Broadcasting House but was famously sacked from the project after refusing to compromise on the architecture in light of budget restrictions. In 1999, MacCormac designed a radical modern home in Hampstead for Arsenal F.C. striker Thierry Henry, and in 2004, his Phoenix Initiative for Coventry was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize.