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In 1976 Hopkins set up what
became Hopkins Architects in
partnership with his wife,
Patricia, who ran her own
practice. One of their first
buildings was their own house
in Hampstead, a lightweight
steel structure with glass
façades. Early Hopkins
buildings, such as the Greene
King brewery in Bury St
Edmunds and the
Schlumberger laboratories
near Cambridge, used new
materials and construction
techniques
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His own 1976 house in Hampstead, London
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The new opera house at Glyndebourne
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The Queen's Building at Emmanuel College,
Cambridge
Eva Jiricna has been made the
recipient of a prestigious award
for her lifelong contribution to
architecture, from the Czech
Ministry of Culture. This is the
first time there has been an
architectural award along with
those which are made annually
from selected nominations for
theatre, literature and music.
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Glass stairs
he began studying philosophy at
Copenhagen University and in 1918
enrolled for an engineering degree at
the Polyteknisk Læreanstalt,
Copenhagen, specialising in reinforced
concrete. He completed his studies in
1922. At this time Ove Arup was
influenced by Charles Edouard
Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) and his
publication Vers une architecture,
published that year; and also by
Walter Gropius, the founder of the
Bauhaus movement.
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