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GMW Architects was an architectural practice based in the United Kingdom. In August 2015, the firm was taken over by another business, Scott Brownrigg, "as part of plans to move into the airport sector." ==History== The practice was established in 1947 by Frank Gollins (1910–1999), James Melvin (1912–2012), and Edmund Ward (1912–98) and operated as Gollins Melvin Ward. In the 1950s they designed the central campus for the University of Sheffield and Castrol House, a tower on Marylebone Road in London, notable as one of the first uses of curtain walling on a building in the United Kingdom.〔(GMW Partnership website )〕 In the 1960s they went on to design two buildings at Undershaft in the City of London - the 28 storey Commercial Union Tower, which was the first building in the city to exceed the height of St Paul's Cathedral, and the now demolished headquarters of P&O. These buildings both featured an innovative structure by which the office floors are hung by steel rods from cantilevers extending out from the concrete core, rather than being supported from ground level.〔(20th Century Society - Building of the Month December 2004 )〕 In 1974 the three founders retired, leaving a well-established practice. Soon after GMW was awarded a commission to design the King Saud University in Saudi Arabia.〔 In 1983 the firm was appointed to design the new Barclays Bank headquarters building at 54 Lombard Street and in 1994 the practice was appointed to handle the refurbishment of Tower 42 in London.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「GMW Architects」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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