William Curtis Green

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Nationality English Buildings The Dorchester Occupation Architect Education Royal Academy of Arts		Name William Green Awards Royal Gold Medal Role Architect

Born July 1875 Alton, Hampshire Died March 26, 1960, Pall Mall, London, St James's, United Kingdom People also search for Owen Williams, W.H. Hamlyn, Henry I of England Structures The Wolseley, The Dorchester, Queens Hotel - Leeds

William Curtis Green (16 July 1875 – 26 March 1960) was an English architect.

Green was born in Alton, Hampshire. He studied engineering at the technical school at West Bromwich and architecture at Birmingham School of Art. Articled to John Belcher from 1895 he studied part-time at the Royal Academy. In 1897 he joined the staff at The Builder as the draughtsman. He joined the Art Workers Guild.

He founded his architectural practice in 1898, also marrying that year Cicely Dillworth Lloyd. His first commissions included several power stations. In 1910 he formed a partnership with Dunn and Watson.

In 1942 Green was awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Architectural works

Green's works include:

Bristol Tramways Power Station (1899)

Brislington Tram Depot (1900)

Hove Power Station (1900)

Chiswick Power Station (1904)

The Tuckett's Farm Estate, Netherton, Devon (1904)

Dolobran Chislehurst (1905)

Quaker Meeting House, Croydon (1905)

Church of the Good Shepherd, Dockenfield, Surrey (1910)

Scottish Provident Building, Lombard Street, London (1912)

Scottish Provident Building, Pall Mall, London (1912)

Rystwood House, Forest Row, Sussex (1913)

Hardwick Garden City Housing Estate, Chepstow (1915)

Wolseley Motor Showrooms, 160 Piccadilly, London (later Barclay's Bank; now The Wolseley café restaurant) (1922)

Workshops at Oxford for Wolseley Motors (1923)

Old Stanmore Estate Winchester (1924)

Ashmore Manor, Dorset (1925)

Westminster Bank 63 Piccadilly (1926)

London Life Assurance Building King William Street (London) (1927)

9 Duke Street St James's (1928)

Stockgrove Park (1929)

Stratton House Piccadilly (1929)

The Dorchester Hotel, London (1930–31) with Owen Williams

St. George's Church (1932)

Barclay's Bank, Knightsbridge (1932)

Goodmans Furze, Headley, Surrey (1932)

Scottish Widows Fund Building, Cornhill, London (1932)

St Christopher's Church, Cove, Hampshire (1934)

Barclay's Bank, Bond Street (1935)

Houses and Cottages, Tamerton Foliot (1936)

Equity Law Building, Lincoln's Inn Fields (1936)

Extension, Scotland Yard, Victoria Embankment (The Curtis Green Building)(1937–40)

Robinswood House, Fairwarp, Sussex (1937)

Bentley House, NW1 (1937)

Cambridge University Press (1938)

References

William Curtis Green Wikipedia

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