In 1976 Hopkins set up what

became Hopkins Architects in

partnership with his wife,

Patricia, who ran her own

practice. One of their first

buildings was their own house

in Hampstead, a lightweight

steel structure with glass

façades. Early Hopkins

buildings, such as the Greene

King brewery in Bury St

Edmunds and the

Schlumberger laboratories

near Cambridge, used new

materials and construction

techniques

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His own 1976 house in Hampstead, London

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The new opera house at Glyndebourne

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The Queen's Building at Emmanuel College,

Cambridge

Eva Jiricna has been made the

recipient of a prestigious award

for her lifelong contribution to

architecture, from the Czech

Ministry of Culture. This is the

first time there has been an

architectural award along with

those which are made annually

from selected nominations for

theatre, literature and music.

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Glass stairs

he began studying philosophy at

Copenhagen University and in 1918

enrolled for an engineering degree at

the Polyteknisk Læreanstalt,

Copenhagen, specialising in reinforced

concrete. He completed his studies in

1922. At this time Ove Arup was

influenced by Charles Edouard

Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) and his

publication Vers une architecture,

published that year; and also by

Walter Gropius, the founder of the

Bauhaus movement.

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