Joseph Emberton

In 1923 he designed Olympia National, then known as the New Hall. This sat alongside Olympia Grand at the Kensington event venue. 1932 saw the construction of his second addition to Olympia – Olympia Central (initially named the Empire Hall). These halls, along with other event spaces, all make up one of London's largest event venues – Olympia London. • Illustration — The Casino Building at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, designed by Emberton in 1939 His 1931 design of the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club at Burnham-on-Crouch represented Britain at the influential International Exhibition of Modern Architecture held at Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1932. He went on to design the Simpsons of Piccadilly department store in 1936 with the interior designed by László Moholy-Nagy, the facade and foyer for Green's Playhouse in Dundee in 1936, and the Casino Building at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in 1939. Emberton was responsible for the design of the HMV store at 393 Oxford Street, London. He had to do it twice as the original 1936 burnt down and was replaced in 1939 by another of his design. Carl Ludwig Philipp Franck, as principal of the firm Emberton, Franck & Tardew, took charge and saw it to completion in 1958. Emberton's archive is located at the University of Brighton Design Archives. The couple had two daughters. He died in London on 20 November 1956.