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Town hall, market hall and clock tower, Darlington. Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) was a prolific English architect who worked in the second half of the 19th century. His buildings were largely in Victorian Gothic Revival style. Waterhouse's biographer, Colin Cunningham, states that between about 1865 and about 1885 he was "the most widely ...
Eventually, Waterhouse moved south to London, where he designed the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors off Parliament Square and the Guilds' College in South Kensington (Middlesex). He became most renowned, however, for the magnificent Natural History Museum (1873-81), also in South Kensington.
30 de ago. de 2012 · Waterhouse's Natural History Museum, London, seen illuminated. Photograph January 2011. Left to right: A view from an angle opposite to that shown above. Middle: The roofline showing some of the elaborate spiral chimneys. Right: The entrance with two signs declaring "Mortimer House." Three views of ceramic work in the museum.
Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic revival. He is perhaps best known for his design for Manchester Town Hall and the Natural History Museum in London , although he also built a wide variety of other buildings throughout the country.
The Natural History Museum in London is a spectacular building in many senses (Fig. 1). As one of the outstanding landmarks of high Victorian architecture, it was designed to draw attention both to itself and to its contents. No other museum building in Britain adopted a Romanesque style on this scale; no other building had used terracotta in such a rich and decorative manner, and no other ...
This building is Waterhouse's revision of a design by Captain Francis Fowkes, the winner of the competition for this commission. Fowkes died unexpectedly in 1865 so Waterhouse was called in to execute the project. Although the original design had been Italian Renaissance in style, Waterhouse changed the style to German Romanesque.
London. Avanti Architects is leading the multi-phased repair and restoration of the iconic façade of the Grade I listed Natural History Museum; one of the country’s most striking examples of Victorian Romanesque revival architecture and the first building in England entirely faced with terracotta. Designed by Alfred Waterhouse in 1873, the ...
