Title & Author:

Designing for Cricket / [presented by] David Morley.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1997.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (16 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Lord's Cricket Ground. Aerial View -- Lord's Cricket Ground. The Mound Stand -- Lord's Cricket Ground. Photomontage -- Lord's Cricket Ground. Media Centre -- Lord's Cricket Ground. Grandstand -- Indoor Cricket School. Front Elevation -- Indoor Cricket School. Aerial View -- Indoor Cricket School. Interior Views -- Indoor Cricket School. Interior Gallery -- Indoor Cricket School. Side View -- Indoor Cricket School. Night View -- Indoor Cricket School. Railings -- ECB Headquarters. Front Elevation -- ECB Headquarters. Interior/Window -- ECB Headquarters. Corner View -- ECB Headquarters. Back Corner View -- Lord's Shop. Front View -- Lord's Shop. Aerial View -- Lord's Shop. Interior -- Lord's Shop. Front View -- Lord's Shop. Aerial View By Night -- Warwickshire County Cricket Club. Indoor Cricket Centre.

Summary:

The English architect David Morley trained at Cambridge and the AA. Working with Norman Foster on several projects, he set up their French office which was responsible for the Carre d'Art at Nimes. In 1987 he started his own practice in London and has designed a variety of buildings including a hospital extension, housing, halls of residence for two Oxford colleges and, not least, the award winning work at Lord's Cricket Ground, the subject of his talk. Cricket is quintessentially an English game, and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) which owns Lord's is the premier cricket club in the world. In the 1980s it recognised that its leading role should be reflected in the building environment it created. The Mound Stand by Michael Hopkins & Partners, the first example of this attitude, was such a success that they were encouraged to pursue excellence in architectural design in all the subsequent projects that they commissioned; also recognising the importance of unifying and linking individual separate buildings with a clear master plan for the entire grounds. David Morley & Partners were chosen to design three buildings and the master plan while Hopkins, Grimshaw and Future Systems are the authors of the remaining new structures.

Subject:

Cricket grounds.
Stadiums.
Terrains de cricket.
cricket fields.

Added entries:

Morley, David, 1935- narrator.