Royal Garden Hotel is a 5-star hotel in London , England, located in the borough of Kensington .
18-532: The hotel was preceded by the former Royal Palace Hotel, a Victorian-era hotel completed in 1893 designed by British architect, Basil Champneys . As part of the war effort in the 1900s, The Royal Palace was taken over and used as the headquarters for the Woman's Royal Voluntary Service. In the 1961, as part of a Labour Government grant, the Queen Anne-style building was demolished and completely rebuilt in
36-659: A Brutalist -style under the guide of architect, Colonel Richard Seifert . The hotel re-opened in 1965 as the Royal Garden Hotel, operated by the Oddeninos hotel company. In 1994, the hotel was bought by the Singaporean entrepreneur, Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat , and undertook a £30 million refurbishment. It reopened in April 1996 under the management of Khoo's Goodwood Group, joining the group's two Singapore hotels,
54-742: A chapel and residence hall at Linacre College (1907–1909), and the Rhodes Building in Oriel College (1908–1911). His Cambridge works include the Archaeological Museum (1883), now Peterhouse Theatre, the Divinity and Literary School and Newnham College (between 1875 and 1910), for which he is credited for bringing a 'touch of lightness' to the college and is acknowledged for his attention to both construction details, and to cost. Champneys' buildings elsewhere include
72-635: A portfolio published in 1871, Victorian art and originality for the British Architect published in 1887, and The architecture of Queen Victoria's reign for the Art Journal , published in 1887. A Quiet Corner of England: Studies of Landscape and Architecture in Winchelsea, Rye and Romney Marsh was published in 1875 after being circulated as a portfolio and a work regarding his mother-in-law, Adelaide Drummond, A Retrospect and Memoir ,
90-679: Is given for a distinguished body of work rather than for one building and is therefore not awarded for merely being currently fashionable. The medal was first awarded in 1848 to Charles Robert Cockerell , and its second recipient was the Italian Luigi Canina in 1849. The winners include some of the most influential architects of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1864), Frank Lloyd Wright (1941), Le Corbusier (1953), Walter Gropius (1956), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1959) and Buckminster Fuller (1968). Candidates of all nationalities are eligible to receive
108-460: Is in danger of demolition due to Staffordshire County Council wishing to give the land away to a land developer. Churches by Champneys include his father's parish church, St Luke's, Kentish Town (1867–1870), the sailors' church of St Mary Star of the Sea, Hastings (1878), and St Chad, Slindon, Staffordshire (1894). In 1897 he did the painting of clouds, cherubs and scrolls on the ceiling of St George
126-898: Is one of Champneys' finest designs. Champneys' Oxford buildings include the Church of St Peter-le-Bailey (1872–1874), which serves as the chapel for St Peter's College , New Old Hall in Lady Margaret Hall (1881–1883), the Indian Institute (1883–1896), the Mansfield College library (1886–1889), the Robinson Tower at New College (1896), the Somerville College Library (1903), the St. Alban Hall buildings at Merton College (1905–1910),
144-580: The Goodwood Park Hotel and the York Hotel. In May 2011, the hotel completed the final stage of an extensive £45 million refurbishment. The hotel closed in 2020, with plans and reopened in 2022 following the refurbishment of rooms and a restaurant. 51°30′10″N 0°11′17″W / 51.50265°N 0.18803°W / 51.50265; -0.18803 Basil Champneys Basil Champneys (17 September 1842 – 5 April 1935)
162-694: The Savile Club , making acquaintances with Walter Pater , Robert Louis Stevenson , Sidney Colvin , and Coventry Patmore . In 1912 the Royal Institute of British Architects awarded Champneys its Royal Gold Medal for architecture. Champneys died at his home, 42 Frognall Lane, Hampstead, on 5 April 1935. He was the brother of Brasenose rowers Weldon Champneys (clergyman) and Sir Francis Champneys (doctor). His writings include an introduction to Henry Merritt: Art Criticism and Romance , published in 1879 and Churches about Queen Victoria Street ,
180-714: The Martyr, Southwark in London. In 1898 he added a porch to St Mary, Manchester, where he was surveyor, and between 1902 and 1903, a south annexe. His home, Hall Oak, in Frognal , Hampstead was also one of his works. Royal Gold Medal The Royal Gold Medal for architecture is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British monarch , in recognition of an individual's or group's substantial contribution to international architecture. It
198-638: The Surveyor of Llandaff Cathedral . Champneys set up his practice as an architect in 1867 in Queen's Square, London, close to the office of Morris & Co. In 1876 he married May Theresa Ella, the daughter of Maurice Drummond, descendant of William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan , and they had two sons and two daughters. Champneys was a member of the Century Guild, the Athenaeum Club and
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#1732782690813216-490: The academic Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker ). One of eight children, he attended Charterhouse School , showing a talent for mathematics and lacking in drawing skills. In 1860, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge . In 1864, he failed to get the 'first class' degree he had hoped for, achieving a second class in the Classical Tripos , and he took articles to study as an architect with John Prichard ,
234-986: The award. Not all recipients were architects. Also recognised were engineers such as Ove Arup (1966) and Peter Rice (1992), who undoubtedly played an outstanding role in the realisation of some of the 20th century's key buildings all over the world. Repeatedly, the prize was awarded to influential writers on architecture, including scholars such as the Rev Robert Willis (1862), Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1967), and Sir John Summerson (1976), as well as theoreticians such as Lewis Mumford (1961) and Colin Rowe (1995). It honoured archaeologists such as Sir Austen Henry Layard (1868), Karl Richard Lepsius (1869), Melchior de Vogüé (1879), Heinrich Schliemann (1885), Rodolfo Lanciani (1900) and Sir Arthur Evans (1909), and painters such as Lord Leighton (1894), and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1906). Another notable exception
252-590: The chapel of Mill Hill School , London (1898), buildings for Bedford College in Regent's Park (1910), King Edward VII School (King's Lynn) (1910–1913), the Butler Museum at Harrow School (1886), the museum at Winchester College (1898), and Bedford High School (1878–1892). Champneys also designed the Wilnecote Board School buildings as a slightly earlier work in 1877; this building
270-515: The pioneers of the Queen Anne style , working on at least 100 buildings throughout England. John Rylands ' widow, Enriqueta Rylands , had admired the library Champneys had designed for Mansfield College, Oxford and hired him to develop the design on a more lavish scale – The John Rylands Memorial Library in Deansgate, Manchester took nine years to build before opening on 1 January 1900, it
288-490: Was an English architect and author whose most notable buildings include Manchester 's John Rylands Library , Somerville College Library (Oxford), Newnham College, Cambridge , Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford , Mansfield College, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford 's Rhodes Building. Champneys was born in Whitechapel , London , on 17 September 1842 into a family with a modest income. His father, William Weldon Champneys ,
306-400: Was an Evangelical Vicar of St Mary's Church , Whitechapel (later Dean of Lichfield ). His mother, Mary Anne, was fourth daughter of the goldsmith and silversmith Paul Storr (his cousins thus including Rev. Vernon Storr , Archdeacon of Westminster from 1931 to 1936, Rev. Frank Utterton , Archdeacon of Surrey from 1906 to 1908, the artists Rex Whistler and Laurence Whistler , and
324-670: Was published in 1915. Champneys' correspondence has been preserved in the General Collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library . Believing that architecture was 'an art not a science' he joined the Art Workers Guild instead of the Royal Institute of British Architects . Although Champneys was able to work in the Gothic style that John Prichard preferred and taught, he later became one of
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