Title & Author:

A Visual Eye / [presented by] Graham Haworth (Haworth Tompkins Ltd.) & Steve Tompkins (Haworth Tompkins Ltd).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 2002.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (44 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Dr. Martens' Headquarters, Northamptonshire -- Office For Equity & Law, St. Helier, Jersey -- House, Notting Hill, London -- Office For Axa Sun Life, Douglas, Isle Of Man -- Royal Court Theatre, London. South Side -- Royal Court Theatre, London. Auditorium -- Royal Court Theatre, London. Red Wall Encircling Auditorium -- Royal Court Theatre, London. New Undercroft Under Sloane Square -- Royal Court Theatre, London. New Undercroft Under Sloane Square -- Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. Screen -- Coin Street Social Housing. View From West -- Coin Street Social Housing. Hard Landscape Of Courtyard -- Coin Street Social Housing. Northwest Corner -- Coin Street Social Housing. Balconies -- Coin Street Social Housing. Corner Looking East, With London Eye Rising Beyond -- Temporary Accommodation For The Almeida Theatre. Old Gainsborough Studios, Shoreditch -- Temporary Accommodation For The Almeida Theatre At King's Cross.

Summary:

Graham Haworth and Steve Tompkins have been in practice together in London since 1991, and have been celebrated for their design of theatres (the Royal Court and the temporary Almeida), and for housing completed for the Coin Street Community Builders. They try to keep their practice small, and have won a number of awards as well as competitions, the most recent being for the Young Vic, London. When discussing their approach to architecture they say that they are "searching in an intuitive way for a language which engages people directly... building out of a very direct materiality with direct constructional techniques". "Buildings should be beautiful and fun" they say, "as they are there to make life more enjoyable". Graham graduated from Cambridge University, Steve graduated from Bath University, and they met while working with Rab Bennetts in the late 1980s.

Subject:

Architecture, Industrial Great Britain.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture industrielle Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Industrial.
Architecture, Modern.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Haworth, Graham, 1960- narrator.
Tompkins, Steve, narrator.