Michael Hopkins

Sir Michael Hopkins, CBE, RA, AADipl (born May 5, 1935, in Poole, Dorset) is an English architect. He studied at the Architectural Association and after working for Frederick Gibberd and a spell in partnership with Norman Foster^[1] he set up his own practice (now know as Hopkins Architects) with his wife, Patricia. Together they received the Royal Institute of British Architects Royal Gold Medal. Hopkins was elected to the Royal Academy in 1992 and awarded the CBE and knighted for services to architecture.

The work of Hopkins Architects includes:

• his own 1976 house in Hampstead, London
• the new opera house at Glyndebourne
• "The Round Building" at Hathersage, in Derbyshire for David Mellor Cutler & Designer. This factory is on an old gasometer base.
• the Mound Stand at Lord's Cricket Ground
• the Inland Revenue headquarters below Nottingham Castle
• accommodation for British Members of Parliament at Portcullis House, London
• the first phase of the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham, with the National College for School Leadership
• The Forum in Norwich - the East of England Millennium project
• Our Dynamic Earth science and conference centre in Edinburgh
• an extension to the Manchester City Art Gallery
• the new building for the Wellcome Trust in London
• the Queen's Building at Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Gallery

Wellcome Trust building on Euston Road, London

The Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre, opened in 1985, was one of Hopkins' earliest buildings and shows his distinctive use of a suspended, high-tech, fabric roof

Portcullis House, Westminster, London

All of the Phase 1 Construction on the University of Nottingham's Jubilee Campus was designed by Hopkins

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External links

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