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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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James Stirling
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(1926–92, kt 1992) Architect who made an early name with controversial, angular, brightly coloured designs – in particular the engineering building at the university of Leicester (1959), the history faculty building at Cambridge (1964) and the Florey building at Queen's College, Oxford (1966). In his later career he was more appreciated abroad than in Britain. By far his most famous building was the art gallery in Stuttgart; this became obliquely familiar to British viewers from a TV commercial for Rover, in which a German driving the British car looks approvingly at the façade of the gallery and murmurs 'Britischer Architekt'.
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His only building of importance in Britain in his later life was the Clore Gallery for the *Tate. In the years before his death his proposed design for an important site opposite the Mansion House in London was the subject of much debate, being dismissed by the prince of Wales as looking like a '1930s wireless set' but being eventually granted planning permission after long legal battles.
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