Amanda Levete Architects
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Amanda Levete Architects (for marketing reasons known as AL_A) is a London
-based office formed in 2009 following the end of Amanda Levete's 20-year partnership with the late Jan Kaplický
at Future Systems
, where the partnership had completed several internationally recognised buildings including Selfridges
' store in Birmingham
and the Stirling Prize
-winning media centre at Lord's cricket ground
. Levete's new company has won a number of important projects, based on her creative and collaborative approach to architecture.
Completion 2014 - AL_A have won a competition to design an extension to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.The project is expected to take five years and will include a new entrance to the museum from Exhibition Road, a public courtyard hosting a cafe and installations, and a new gallery for temporary exhibitions below ground.
AL_A has designed a major retail and hotel complex in central Bangkok, Thailand. Work was due to start on site in February 2011.
was completed and 185 Oxford Street,
an office building located in the heart of London's retail area of Oxford Street.
Completion 2010 - AL_A was commissioned by the Hayward Gallery to do the interior spatial design and planning of the exhibition, as well as develop a multi-media archive in collaboration with interactive designers Unit 9.
Completion 2009 - an office building located just off Oxford Street has a sleek sculptural façade.
Completion 2009 - The 40 metre span bridge with its fluid lines and undulating concrete surface takes trams,traffic and pedestrians across the Royal Canal.
Completion 2008 - AL_A were awarded the Interiors and Fit-Out Prize at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona for their Corian Super-Surfaces Showroom in Milan. tThe installation features twisted strips of solid surface material that form seating, display shelving and partitions.
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
-based office formed in 2009 following the end of Amanda Levete's 20-year partnership with the late Jan Kaplický
Jan Kaplický
Jan Kaplický was a world-renowned Czech architect who spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom. He was the leading architect behind the innovative design office, Future Systems. He was best known for the futuristic Selfridges Building in Birmingham, England, and the Media Centre...
at Future Systems
Future Systems
Future Systems was a London-based architectural and design practice, formerly headed by Directors Jan Kaplický and Amanda Levete.Future Systems was founded by Kaplický after working with Denys Lasdun, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, and Richard Rogers...
, where the partnership had completed several internationally recognised buildings including Selfridges
Selfridges
Selfridges, AKA Selfridges & Co, is a chain of high end department stores in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge. The flagship store in London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK and was opened on 15 March 1909.More recently, three other stores have been...
' store in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
and the Stirling Prize
Stirling Prize
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...
-winning media centre at Lord's cricket ground
Lord's Cricket Ground
Lord's Cricket Ground is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board , the European Cricket Council and, until August 2005, the...
. Levete's new company has won a number of important projects, based on her creative and collaborative approach to architecture.
Competitions won
- Victoria & Albert MuseumVictoria and Albert MuseumThe Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...
, London
Completion 2014 - AL_A have won a competition to design an extension to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.The project is expected to take five years and will include a new entrance to the museum from Exhibition Road, a public courtyard hosting a cafe and installations, and a new gallery for temporary exhibitions below ground.
- Bangkok Central Embassy
AL_A has designed a major retail and hotel complex in central Bangkok, Thailand. Work was due to start on site in February 2011.
Completed
Several projects commissioned when the office was known as Future Systems have now been completed. In 2008, the Metropolis residential tower in CopenhagenCopenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
was completed and 185 Oxford Street,
an office building located in the heart of London's retail area of Oxford Street.
London,UK
- Move: Choreographing You exhibition design
Completion 2010 - AL_A was commissioned by the Hayward Gallery to do the interior spatial design and planning of the exhibition, as well as develop a multi-media archive in collaboration with interactive designers Unit 9.
- 10 Hills Place
Completion 2009 - an office building located just off Oxford Street has a sleek sculptural façade.
Dublin,Ireland
- Spencer Dock Bridge
Completion 2009 - The 40 metre span bridge with its fluid lines and undulating concrete surface takes trams,traffic and pedestrians across the Royal Canal.
Milan,Italy
- Corian Super-surfaces installation
Completion 2008 - AL_A were awarded the Interiors and Fit-Out Prize at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona for their Corian Super-Surfaces Showroom in Milan. tThe installation features twisted strips of solid surface material that form seating, display shelving and partitions.
Awards
- The Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award,Spencer Dock Bridge
- European Aluminium Award, Special Jury Prize for Innovation & Design, 10 Hills Place
- World Architecture Festival 2009 Interiors and Fit-Out Prize, Corian Super-surfaces installation
- CAB Aluminium in Renovation Award UK, Overall Winner, 10 Hills Place
- CAB Aluminium in Renovation Award UK, Special Prize, 10 Hills Place
- City of Copenhagen Good and Beautiful Buildings Award, Metropolis Copenhagen
- Leading European Arhictects Form - LEAF Awards, Spencer Dock Bridge