24-519: Lord Palumbo may refer to: Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo (born 1935), a British property developer, art collector, and former chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He is the father of James Palumbo. James Palumbo, Baron Palumbo of Southwark (born 1963), a British entrepreneur, author, and co-founder of the Ministry of Sound nightclub. He
48-647: A building designed by Sir Christopher Wren which had been badly damaged during the Blitz (World War II) – the sculptor Henry Moore was commissioned by Palumbo to create its stone altar . The former Rector of St Stephen Walbrook and founder of the Samaritans , Dr Chad Varah , also served as the Palumbo family chaplain. Upon Prime Minister Thatcher's nomination, he was elevated to the peerage , being created on 4 February 1991 Baron Palumbo , of Walbrook in
72-692: A label which stuck but which he himself rejected, and was considered by many to be his most important work. As part of the worldwide expansion of Stirling and Wilford's practice beginning in the 1970s, the firm completed four significant buildings in the U.S., all university structures: an addition for the Rice University School of Architecture in Houston, Texas; the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts;
96-434: A number of school buildings including Peckham Girl's Comprehensive School. When he and James Gowan started their own practice Lyons Israel Ellis gave them part of their Preston housing project, helping to establish their reputation for innovative design. In 1956 he and James Gowan left their positions as assistants with the firm of Lyons, Israel, and Ellis to set up a practice as Stirling and Gowan. Their first built project –
120-493: A partner in 1971) continued the practice. The Stirling Prize , a British annual prize for architecture since 1996, was named after him. Many architects admire Stirling's work, but opinion has been divided. After Stirling's death, Italian architect and critic Vittorio Gregotti wrote that "from now on, everything will be more difficult". Writing in The Guardian , Andrew Saint called Stirling "A fearless experimentalist,
144-713: A private house built by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Allegheny Mountains south of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania; owned a unit in the 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments in Chicago; and for a time owned Le Corbusier 's Maisons Jaoul in Neuilly-sur-Seine , Paris. In 1994 Palumbo demolished the Mappin & Webb building in the City of London and replaced it, at No 1 Poultry , with a building designed by
168-545: A small development of private apartments Langham House Close (1955–58) – was regarded as a landmark in the development of 'brutalist' residential architecture, although this was a description both architects rejected. Another result of Stirling & Gowan's collaboration is the Department of Engineering building at the University of Leicester (1959–63), noted for its technological and geometric character, marked by
192-642: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo Peter Garth Palumbo, Baron Palumbo (born 20 July 1935), is a British property developer and art collector, who served as the last Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain . Lord Palumbo sat as a Life Peer on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords from 1991 to 2019. Of Italian descent, Lord Palumbo
216-529: Is the only son of Rudolph Palumbo also a major property developer, by his first wife Elsie Gregory. He was educated at Scaitcliffe School , Englefield Green in Surrey, and then at Eton College before going up to Worcester College, Oxford , where he read jurisprudence graduating with a third-class degree. In the 1960s Palumbo commissioned Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to build a tower in London ; although it
240-475: Is the son of Peter Palumbo. [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord_Palumbo&oldid=1014137977 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
264-792: The Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection at the Tate Britain , London (1980–87); the Tate Liverpool (1984, but since then heavily altered and no longer recognisable as a Stirling project). The last building he completed during his life was the Venice Biennale Bookshop (1989-91, with Thomas Muirhead). ( No 1 Poultry in London (1986) was completed by others, posthumously). In June 1992, Stirling
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#1732781191680288-542: The University of Cambridge and the Florey Building accommodation block for The Queen's College, Oxford . He also completed a training centre for Olivetti in Haslemere, Surrey and housing for the University of St Andrews both of which made prominent use of pre-fabricated elements, GRP for Olivetti and pre-cast concrete panels at St Andrews. During the 1970s, Stirling's architectural language began to change as
312-670: The Arts Council of Great Britain, serving from 1988 until 1994. Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth (1992–2007) and Chairman of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery, Lord Palumbo also served as a Trustee of the Architecture Foundation and chaired the jury of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture . Palumbo led the fundraising effort to restore and refurbish the Church of St Stephen Walbrook in London ,
336-839: The British architect, Sir James Stirling , which was opened by Sir Eddie George , then Governor of the Bank of England . Palumbo served as a Trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1978 until 1985 and Chairman of its foundation (1986–87). Formerly a Trustee of the Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Natural History Museum , he also served as Chairman of the Serpentine Gallery 's Board of Trustees . Prime Minister Thatcher appointed him Chairman of
360-571: The City of London , the territorial designation being taken from the ward and street in the parish where he was churchwarden , which were named after the former River Walbrook . Lord Palumbo sat in the House of Lords until retiring from parliament on 2 September 2019. Palumbo married Denia Wigram (only daughter of Major Lionel Wigram ) in 1959 – together they had one son ( James Palumbo , created Baron Palumbo of Southwark in 2013) and two daughters. They divorced in 1977. After Denia died in 1986, Palumbo married Hayat Mrowa (daughter of
384-660: The Lebanese newspaper publisher Kamel Mrowa , and ex-wife of businessman Ely Calil ), having, by his second wife, a son ( the Hon. Philip Palumbo), and two daughters. Lord Palumbo was a polo teammate of Charles, Prince of Wales , the two remaining close until 1984 when Charles publicly criticised Palumbo's plans to erect a building designed by Mies van der Rohe near St Paul's Cathedral , describing it as "a glass stump" which, faced with opposition, were not realised. In 1988, Palumbo became godfather to Princess Beatrice of York ,
408-995: The Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; and the Biological Sciences Library at the University of California, Irvine. Among unrealized projects in the US are designs for Columbia University and a competition proposal for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. In 1981, Stirling was awarded the Pritzker Prize . Stirling received a series of important commissions in England –
432-538: The elder daughter of the Duke of York . James Stirling (architect) Sir James Frazer Stirling RA (22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992) was a British architect. Stirling worked in partnership with James Gowan from 1956 to 1963, then with Michael Wilford from 1971 until 1992. Stirling was born in Glasgow . His year of birth is widely quoted as 1926 but his longstanding friend Sir Sandy Wilson later stated it
456-504: The scale of his projects moved from small (and not very profitable) to very large. His architecture became more overtly neoclassical , though it remained deeply imbued with modernism . This produced a wave of large-scale urban projects, most notably three museum projects for Düsseldorf , Cologne , and Stuttgart . Winning the design competition for the Neue Staatsgalerie , it came to be seen as an example of postmodernism ,
480-504: The use of three-dimensional drawings based on axonometric projection seen either from above (in a bird's eye view) or below (in a worm's eye view). The project brought Stirling to a global audience. In 1963, Stirling and Gowan separated; Stirling then set up on his own, taking with him the office assistant Michael Wilford (who later became a partner). Stirling then oversaw two projects: the History Faculty Library at
504-610: Was 1924. The family moved to Liverpool when James was an infant, where he attended Quarry Bank High School . During World War II , he joined the Black Watch before transferring to the Parachute Regiment . He was parachuted behind German enemy lines before D-Day and was wounded twice, before returning to Britain. Stirling studied architecture from 1945 until 1950 at the University of Liverpool , where Colin Rowe
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#1732781191680528-572: Was a tutor. He worked in a number of firms in London before establishing his own practice. From 1952 to 1956 he worked with Lyons, Israel, Ellis in London where he met his first partner James Gowan. Lyons, Israel, Ellis was considered one of the most influential post war practices at that time, focusing on buildings for the Welfare State with architects such as Alan Colquhoun and John Miller, Neave Brown, Sue Martin, Richard MacCormac all of whom went on to architectural prominence. Stirling worked on
552-615: Was awarded a knighthood. After consulting with Michael Wilford, he accepted the award on the grounds that it might help their practice. In 1966 Stirling married the designer Mary Shand, the stepdaughter of the writer P. Morton Shand . They had one son and two daughters. Three days after the announcement of his knighthood, Stirling was hospitalised in London with a painful hernia. He died on 25 June 1992 following surgical complications. In accordance with his wishes, his ashes were buried near to his memorial at Christ Church, Spitalfields . After Stirling's death, Michael Wilford (who had become
576-541: Was designed, it was never built. In 1972 Palumbo bought Farnsworth House in the US (outside of Chicago), designed by Ludwig Mies, to which Palumbo added the designer's furniture. He also expanded the grounds of the house by purchasing adjacent properties and placed in them the work of sculptors including Anthony Caro and Richard Serra . Palumbo sold the property at auction to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2003. Palumbo also owns Kentuck Knob ,
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