Stephenson Bell Projects
Kenneth Powell(Author)
Ramona Lamport(Editor)
RIBA Publications (Publisher)
Published on 1. December 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-85946-105-1 (ISBN)
Description
The first major monograph about Stephenson Bell Architects, the genuinely innovative, award-winning, Manchester-based practice. Ken Powell, the respected architectural critic and writer, explores their career and design philosophy in an introductory essay supported by a project-by-project full colour photographic section. Each project contains a description of the building, the brief, the design challenge and the solution. Stephenson Bell Projects is the first major monograph about Stephenson Bell Architects, the genuinely innovative, highly distinctive, Manchester-based practice. Their work has set the trend in the transformation of Manchester from a neglected post-industrial backwater into a young, vibrant city of international standing. Stephenson Bell's work is clean, beautifully detailed, and subtly modulated to its context. Theirs is what Paul Finch in his foreword describes as 'an architecture of synthesis', reflecting an attitude of respect and admiration for the historical, physical and psychological context of the city, working with rather than against what exists to create sympathetic contemporary designs.
New offices such as Trinity Court and Eastgate and loft conversions such as the Smithfield Buildings have marked Stephenson Bell out as one the leading practitioners of regeneration architecture. They have won countless awards, most recently an RIBA Award for Deansgate Quay, which also won a 2001 Housing Design Award along with two other Stephenson Bell schemes. Also in 2001, Roger Stephenson has been awarded an OBE for services to architecture. Written by Kenneth Powell, the respected architectural critic and writer, this book explores Roger Stephenson's and Jeff Bell's careers and design philosophy and is supported by a project-by-project full colour photographic section. Each project contains a description of the building, the brief, the design challenge and the solution, and will be of interest to practising architects, students and the general public.
The first major monograph about Stephenson Bell Architects, the genuinely innovative, award-winning, Manchester-based practice. Ken Powell, the respected architectural critic and writer, explores their career and design philosophy in an introductory essay supported by a project-by-project full colour photographic section. Each project contains a description of the building, the brief, the design challenge and the solution. Stephenson Bell Projects is the first major monograph about Stephenson Bell Architects, the genuinely innovative, highly distinctive, Manchester-based practice. Their work has set the trend in the transformation of Manchester from a neglected post-industrial backwater into a young, vibrant city of international standing. Stephenson Bell's work is clean, beautifully detailed, and subtly modulated to its context. Theirs is what Paul Finch in his foreword describes as 'an architecture of synthesis', reflecting an attitude of respect and admiration for the historical, physical and psychological context of the city, working with rather than against what exists to create sympathetic contemporary designs.
New offices such as Trinity Court and Eastgate and loft conversions such as the Smithfield Buildings have marked Stephenson Bell out as one the leading practitioners of regeneration architecture. They have won countless awards, most recently an RIBA Award for Deansgate Quay, which also won a 2001 Housing Design Award along with two other Stephenson Bell schemes. Also in 2001, Roger Stephenson has been awarded an OBE for services to architecture. Written by Kenneth Powell, the respected architectural critic and writer, this book explores Roger Stephenson's and Jeff Bell's careers and design philosophy and is supported by a project-by-project full colour photographic section. Each project contains a description of the building, the brief, the design challenge and the solution, and will be of interest to practising architects, students and the general public.
New offices such as Trinity Court and Eastgate and loft conversions such as the Smithfield Buildings have marked Stephenson Bell out as one the leading practitioners of regeneration architecture. They have won countless awards, most recently an RIBA Award for Deansgate Quay, which also won a 2001 Housing Design Award along with two other Stephenson Bell schemes. Also in 2001, Roger Stephenson has been awarded an OBE for services to architecture. Written by Kenneth Powell, the respected architectural critic and writer, this book explores Roger Stephenson's and Jeff Bell's careers and design philosophy and is supported by a project-by-project full colour photographic section. Each project contains a description of the building, the brief, the design challenge and the solution, and will be of interest to practising architects, students and the general public.
The first major monograph about Stephenson Bell Architects, the genuinely innovative, award-winning, Manchester-based practice. Ken Powell, the respected architectural critic and writer, explores their career and design philosophy in an introductory essay supported by a project-by-project full colour photographic section. Each project contains a description of the building, the brief, the design challenge and the solution. Stephenson Bell Projects is the first major monograph about Stephenson Bell Architects, the genuinely innovative, highly distinctive, Manchester-based practice. Their work has set the trend in the transformation of Manchester from a neglected post-industrial backwater into a young, vibrant city of international standing. Stephenson Bell's work is clean, beautifully detailed, and subtly modulated to its context. Theirs is what Paul Finch in his foreword describes as 'an architecture of synthesis', reflecting an attitude of respect and admiration for the historical, physical and psychological context of the city, working with rather than against what exists to create sympathetic contemporary designs.
New offices such as Trinity Court and Eastgate and loft conversions such as the Smithfield Buildings have marked Stephenson Bell out as one the leading practitioners of regeneration architecture. They have won countless awards, most recently an RIBA Award for Deansgate Quay, which also won a 2001 Housing Design Award along with two other Stephenson Bell schemes. Also in 2001, Roger Stephenson has been awarded an OBE for services to architecture. Written by Kenneth Powell, the respected architectural critic and writer, this book explores Roger Stephenson's and Jeff Bell's careers and design philosophy and is supported by a project-by-project full colour photographic section. Each project contains a description of the building, the brief, the design challenge and the solution, and will be of interest to practising architects, students and the general public.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
RIBA Publications Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85946-105-1 (9781859461051)
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Content
Foreword Paul Finch 4 Essay Kenneth Powell 6 Projects Eastgate 28 Manchester House 32 Jordan Street 34 Principals House 38 15 Quay Street 40 17 Quay Street 42 Trinity Court 43 CIS 50 55 King Street 52 Smithfield Buildings 54 109 Princess Street 62 Great Bridgewater Street 66 Whitworth Street 67 Chorlton Park 68 Deansgate Quay 70 Dale Street 76 Pool Meadow 77 Summerfields Nursery 80 St. Mary's Nursery 86 UMIST 88 School of Business Management 92 City Art Gallery Cafe/Bar 94 Ralph Capper 96 Angela Campbell Opticians 98 Dukes 101 Kro Bar 102 Quay Bar 104 Airport 110 The Restaurant 112 Free Trade Hall Hotel 118 Garrick Theatre 120 Manchester Convention Centre 122 Selected Project Chronology 128 Selected Bibliography 130 Awards and Competitions 132 Stephenson Bell Statement 134 Stephenson Bell Staff List 135