RMM/8/1/7 - South Bank London - 1994-2009

Includes:

  • Photocopies of articles relating to the South Bank: Clive Entwistle, 'An Alternative Plan for the South Bank', Architectural Review (Mar, 1949); [Unknown author],  'Last chance...

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Includes:

  • Photocopies of articles relating to the South Bank: Clive Entwistle, 'An Alternative Plan for the South Bank', Architectural Review (Mar, 1949); [Unknown author],  'Last chance for the Southbank', Architect's Journal (May 1981); Paul Finch 'South Bank Lifeline', Building Design (11 Oct 1985).
  • Notes (typed) from the South Bank Seminar, at which Maxwell was present. (2 Jun 1994)
  • Papers regarding the project designed by Richard Rogers architects. Includes correspondence, and press cuttings of Maxwell's published letters to newspapers.
  • Magazine cutting from Building Design entitled 'Melody maker: Amanda Birch meets Larry Kirkegaard, the man behind the Royal Festival Hall's acoustic makeover' (1 Oct 2004) 
  • RIBA Journal with feature by Hugh Pearman on the Royal Festival Hall,  marking it's reopening after redevelopment (Jun 2007, pp. 28-52)
  • Chapter of PhD thesis on the completion of Royal Festival Hall in which Maxwell features (2009). 
Date:1994-2009
Reference Number:RMM/8/1/7
Biographical/Administrative Information:

In his autobiography, The Time of my Life in Architecture (Artifice, 2016), Maxwell writes:

Practically all my architectural work in London has been concerned with the South Bank of the Thames: first I had a summer job working for Hugh Casson on the Festival of Britain, which was on the South Bank, working on the Homes and Gardens Pavilion. Then came Block 7A of St Thomas’ Hospital, while working for Holford-Creed. Then came the flats at Royal Street, Lambeth, for the same architects. Then, working in the public sector at the London County Council, it turned out I was in charge of a group working on the Festival Hall. (p. 46)