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James Grey West
Sir James Grey West OBE (1881 – 15 June 1951) was a British architect. Born and trained in Cardiff, Wales, West joined the government Office of Works in 1904, eventually succeeding Sir Richard Allison as chief architect in 1934.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=H M Office of Works (later Ministry of Works and Property Services Agency) )〕
West worked on Bromyard House, the former Ministry of Pensions building in Acton, London (1914–1922), said to be the largest single building in Britain at the time. He designed the hall of Royal Air Force College at Cranwell, Lincolnshire (1929–1933) in the seventeenth-century style of Sir Christopher Wren. West also worked on the Duveen Wing of the National Portrait Gallery (1933), with Allison,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of the National Portrait Gallery )〕 and also provided designs for the Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast (1933).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Royal Courts of Justice )〕 As chief architect, he oversaw the building of Thomas Tait's St. Andrew's House in Edinburgh (1935–39).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Grey West )〕 He was knighted in 1936. During the Second World War, West was appointed Director of Post-War Planning, as well as being chief architect of the reorganised Ministry of Works, until his retirement in 1945.〔
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