Breaking news: RIBA Royal Gold Medal-winning architect Michael Hopkins, who was one of the early pioneers of high-tech architecture, has died aged 88.
One of the founders of the high-tech architecture movement in the late 1960s, Michael Hopkins along with his wife Patty Hopkins, was responsible for some of its most significant early works and later historicist high-tech buildings.
Influential buildings designed by Hopkins Architects include the industrial-looking Hopkins House, the Schlumberger Research Centre, Westminster Underground Station, Portcullis House and the Olympic Velodrome.
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The photography is of courtesy Hopkins Architects.
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