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Architect David Chipperfield RA designed commemorative £5 coin, London, England, UK
14 Feb 2018
Royal Academy of Arts Coin
Royal Academy of Arts Coin
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND THE ROYAL MINT LAUNCH 250th ANNIVERSARY
COIN DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT AND ROYAL ACADEMICIAN DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
The Royal Academy of Arts and The Royal Mint have invited internationally-renowned
architect David Chipperfield RA to design a commemorative £5 coin in celebration of the
Royal Academy?s 250th anniversary in 2018. David Chipperfield is the first architect to ever
design a coin with The Royal Mint.
David Chipperfield?s design, developed with graphic designer John Morgan, was inspired by
an engraving from the third volume of Vitruvius Britannicus (1725), the influential
architectural treatise by Colen Campbell. The coin shows a detail of the original two-storey
façade of Burlington House, the RA?s Grade II-listed seventeenth century home since 1867,
before another level was added in 1872-4 by Sydney Smirke RA.
Since 1664 Burlington House has changed ownership and been remodelled by a series of major architects including Colen Campbell, Samuel Ware, Sydney Smirke RA, Norman Shaw RA, Thomas Jackson RA, and more recently Foster and Partners. Concurrently, Chipperfield is the architect responsible for the RA?s transformative redevelopment, uniting its two bui...
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