Basil Spence - List of Projects

List of Projects

• Sydenham School, Sydenham, London (1953)
• Broughton Place (a private house in the style of a 17th century Scottish tower house in Broughton, Scottish Borders with decorative reliefs by architectural sculptor Hew Lorimer) (1938)
• Gribloch (a house near Kippen, Stirling) (1938–39)
• Kilsyth Academy, Kilsyth (opened 1954, designed 1930)
• Sea and Ships Pavilions for Festival of Britain (1951)
• Duncanrig Secondary School, East Kilbride, Greater Glasgow (1953)
• St Paul's Church, Wordsworth Avenue, Sheffield
• The churches of St Oswald, Tile Hill – St Chad, Wood End – St John the Divine, Willenhall. Built simultaneously in Coventry (1957).
• Thorn EMI House, 5 Upper St. Martin's Lane, London (1959) (Spence's original exterior was demolished in the 1990s; reborn as Orion House with a full-height floor plate addition and re-skinned elevations. A 60-foot-tall (18 m) metal sculpture by Geoffrey Clarke for the original façade (incorporating allusions to electric lamp filaments) has been remounted onto the added lift and service riser.)
• Great Michael Rise and Laverockbank Crescent, social housing developments in Newhaven, Edinburgh
• Erasmus Building, Friars Court, Queens' College, Cambridge (1959–1960)
• Swiss Cottage Leisure Centre (originally 'Swimming Baths'), London (1962–4)
• Spence House, near Beaulieu, Hampshire (designed 1961, for Spence's own use and listed Grade II)
• Coventry Cathedral, completed 1962
• The initial campus design at the University of Sussex (1960s) including Falmer House (1962, now a Grade I listed building)
• Hutchesontown C flats, Gorbals, Glasgow (1962 – demolished in 1993)
• Physics Building, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter.
• Nuffield Theatre, Highfield Campus, University of Southampton (1964)
• The "Beehive", the executive wing of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings Wellington, New Zealand (1964)
• Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Station (1965)
• St Aidan's College, University of Durham
• Edinburgh University Main Library
• Glasgow Airport (1966) (Spence's original façade was covered over in 1989 when an extension was built to house new check-in desks. The original structure can now only be seen from the departure gates and runway.)
• British pavilion, Expo 67 (1967).
• 65 – 103 Canongate, social housing developments in The Canongate, Edinburgh.
• Hyde Park Barracks, London (1970)
• British Embassy, Rome (1971)
• 50 Queen Anne's Gate (the former Home Office building), London (1976)
• Civic Centre, Sunderland (1970)
• Thurso High School Thurso, Scotland (1957)
• The Chadwick Physics Laboratory (1957–9) and The Sydney Jones Library (1976) at the University of Liverpool
• Campus development plan at the University of Nottingham (1957–60) including Chemistry Building, Physics and Mathematics Building, Mining and Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Pope Building, Coates Building
• Agricultural Science Building, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington campus (1956–58)
• Aston University Library (1975) (Sir Basil Spence, Glover and Ferguson). Extended and remodelled in 2010
• Glasgow Royal Infirmary redevelopment – Phases 1 & 2 (1971–82) – now known as the Queen Elizabeth Building and University Block