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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.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s design. In 1924, the London Metropolitan Boroughs ran a competition to find a new design for telephone boxes. They were unhappy with the Post Office’s K1 design, which was bulky and ugly. Giles Gilbert Scott won the competition with his design, which was drawn on a linen sheet sometime between 1924 and 1926.
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.
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.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott OM RA (Hampstead, 9 november 1880 - Bloomsbury, 8 februari 1960) was een Brits architect. Hij kwam uit een familie van vele architecten: zijn grootvader George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878), zijn vader George Gilbert Scott Jr. (1839-1897), zijn oom John Oldrid Scott (1841-1913) en zijn jongere broer met wie hij soms samenwerkte, Adrian Gilbert Scott (1881-1963).
9 de nov. de 2020 · Today’s Google Doodle is celebrating the life of British architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, on what would have been his 140th birthday. Sir Giles is one of the country’s most famous architects.
St Giles, Camberwell was designed by Scott & Moffat in 1842-4. The small medieval parish church of Camberwell had been much “improved” by eighteenth-century windows and appears to have had a small modern apse rather than its medieval chancel. It was the sort of thing that Scott or one of the other Gothic giants would have restored and ...
