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Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (9 November 1880 – 8 February 1960) was a British architect known for his work on the New Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Battersea Power Station, Liverpool Cathedral, and designing the iconic red telephone box. Scott came from a family of architects.
Two of his sons George Gilbert Scott, Jr. (founder of Watts & Company in 1874) and John Oldrid Scott, and his grandson Giles Gilbert Scott, were also prominent architects. His third son, photographer, Albert Henry Scott (1844–65) died at the age of twenty-one; George Gilbert designed his funerary monument in St Peter's Church, Petersham , whilst he was living at The Manor House at Ham in ...
The Ampleforth Abbey was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880 – 1960), who also designed Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral. Known for his monumental structures, evident in that cathedral, Cambridge University Library, and Battersea Power Station, the abbey church also bears the hallmarks of his style which skilfully blends Gothic with the modern.
6 de abr. de 2018 · Cambridge University Library. The Cambridge University Library has been the main centre of research for Cambridge students since its completion in 1934. The building, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, was launched to much public interest. Neville Chamberlain, prime minister at the time, called it a “magnificent erection”.
25 de jun. de 2017 · Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960) fue un arquitecto británico que desarrolló su trabajo principalmente en estilo gótico fusionado con modernismo. El padre de Sir Giles, George Gilbert Scott Jr., fue también arquitecto e hijo a su vez de otro arquitecto, Sir George Gilbert Scott.
30 de mar. de 2017 · He was born in 1880 in Hammersmith, and one can argue that architecture was in his blood as his grandfather, Sir George Gilbert Scott, had been a famous church builder. Unfortunately, when Giles Scott was three years old, his father was found to be of “unsound mind” and spent a significant time in Bethlehem Hospital, otherwise known as Bedlam.
5 de abr. de 2018 · George Gilbert Scott junior (middle Scott), 1839 - 97. George junior’s output was small and a number of his major works were destroyed in the war but his son Giles consider him. ‘a genius – a far better architect than my grandfather…..’. A scholar at Eton, George worked for seven years in his father’s office before going, at the ...
