History
1979 Founded by Jan Kaplicky while working at Foster Associates.
1989 Joined by Amanda Levete who arrives from Richard Rogers & Partners to become a partner.
1994 Completed the well received Hauer-King house in Islington.
1999 Won the Stirling Prize for Lord’s Cricket Ground media centre.
2003 Completed the Selfridges building at the regenerated Bull Ring shopping centre in Birmingham.
2007 Won the commission for the controversial Czech National Library.
2008 Split into two practices after Kaplicky and Levete officially separate as business partners.
2008 Submits design of London Routmaster bus.
2008 Czech National Library project cancelled by Prague authorities.
2009 Jan Kaplický dies on January 14, 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. A month later the final few staff working for Kaplický/Future Systems in Levete's offices were let go.
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