Remembering ?maverick? British architect Will Alsop
Alsop was known for his colorful and playful buildings British architect, Stirling Prize winner, and professor of architecture Will Alsop died unexpectedly on May 12 at the age of 70. Alsop was known as a bon vivant and a maverick, designing colorful and expressive modernist buildings that took playfulness to another level. He was also an avid painter.
Although most of his work is found in England and Europe, Alsop had a special relationship to Toronto, where his Cubist-inspired Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design with a checkerboard design literally towers above the street on multi-colored stilts.
Alsop?s most famous work, the Peckham Library in southeast London, also perches on thin steel pillars, its program shaped like an inverted L, creating a public plaza below and placing the reading room above and away from street-level. Pre-patinated copper clads the front elevation, while a wall of colored glazing makes up the rear facade. The library won the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2000. Other notable designs include a proposal for the Centre Pompidou in Paris that was the runner-up to the Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano?s winning design; the Cardiff Bay Visitor Centre, aka the Tube, in Cardiff Bay, Wales; and the North Greenwich Tube Station in London.
Below are tributes to the architect from around the web.
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The underside of the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art in Toro...
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