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Recipient of the 1999 Stirling Prize
(the highest yearly honor awarded by the Royal Institute of British
Architects), the Natwest Media Centre at Lord's
Cricket Ground in London, by Future Systems, extend's the Marylebone Cricket Club's
patronage of innovative architecture. Though, instead of a relatively
public structure, like Michael Hopkin's well-known facing stands,
the Media Centre is limited to journalists. But where Hopkin's structures
create space by providing shelter, the Media Centre acts as an object
to be seen by the public, either at the grounds or on television.
The interior is secondary (though impressive): the strength of the
design lies in its unabashed object fetish; a sensual, alien form
landed on the grounds at Lord's. |
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