Jamie Fobert
James Earl Fobert, (born November 5, 1962) is a British architect and designer.
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- Name
- Jamie Fobert
- Born
- 5 November 1962
- Birthplace
- Ontario, Canada
- Occupation
- architect
- Education
- University of Toronto
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James Earl Fobert, (born November 5, 1962) is a British architect and designer.
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Jamie Fobert (born 1962) is an architect. The architect was born in Ontario. Jamie Fobert was educated at University of Toronto.
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• Name — Jamie Fobert • Born — 5 November 1962 • Birthplace — Ontario, Canada • Alma Mater — University of Toronto • Practice — Jamie Fobert Architects • Significant Buildings — * Extension to Tate St Ives • Extension to Kettle's Yard • Levring House • Anderson House
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Jamie Fobert studied architecture in his native Canada, at the University of Toronto. He arrived in London in 1988 and was employed for eight years at David Chipperfield Architects. During that time, he worked on a house for Nick Knight. In 1996, he established his own practice, Jamie Fobert Architects. Since then, his work has ranged from individual houses to retail, including Givenchy, Versace and Selfridges, and significant public buildings for the arts. His practice has won a number of public commissions for cultural organizations including Tate St Ives and Kettle's Yard and the National Portrait Gallery, London. Current projects include work for the Royal Observatory Greenwich and the Tower of London. He is a Trustee of the Camden Arts Centre and Chair of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation. He was appointed CBE in the 2020 New Year Honours, for services to architecture.
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Jamie Fobert was born on 5 November 1962.
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Jamie Fobert Architects has won awards including several RIBA Awards and has been twice shortlised for the RIBA Stirling Prize. In 2018, Tate St Ives was awarded the Art Fund Museum of the Year and was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize. In 2019, the practice won the BD Architect of the Year Award, in recognition of an outstanding body of work in the field of public buildings. The practice's redevelopment of the National Portrait Gallery was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2024 and was praised as a 'sensitive and climate-aware reconfiguration'.
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- 1.Head space: Architect Jamie Fobert. The Independent. May 2, 2008.
- 2.Landau, Jack. U of T Daniels Lecture: Jamie Fobert "Working in Architecture". UrbanToronto. November 17, 2015.
- 3.Ashenburg, Katherine. Meet Canada's undercover starchitect, Jamie Fobert, who's set to transform Britain's National Portrait Gallery. The Globe and Mail. June 9, 2019.
- 4.Glancey, Johnathan. Concrete achievements. The Guardian. December 2, 2004.
- 5.Long, Kieran. Jamie Fobert. Icon (architecture magazine). December 2024.
- 6.Bernstein, Fred. See How One of Britain's Rising-Star Architects Works Magic in Impossible Sites. Architectural Digest. March 28, 2018.
- 7.The new Tate St Ives opens – Press Release. Tate.
- 8.Jamie Fobert on the new Kettle's Yard. Kettle's Yard. February 9, 2018.
- 9.This architect is remodelling the National Portrait Gallery. Evening Standard. February 22, 2018.
- 10.National Portrait Gallery, Westminster. The RIBA Journal. 2024-05-10.
- 11.Contact.
- 12.Allford, Simon. The Architecture Foundation Board of Trustees | Architecture Foundation. www.architecturefoundation.org.uk.
- 13.Awards for NY2020.
- 14.Museum of the Year 2019. Art Fund.
- 15.Wilson, Rob. RIBA Stirling Prize 2018: Tate St Ives by Jamie Fobert Architects. Architects Journal. October 2018.
- 16.Jamie Fobert crowned Architect of the Year. Building Design.
- 17.National Portrait Gallery. RIBA.
- 18.Stirling Prize 2024 shortlist: National Portrait Gallery. RIBA Journal.
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