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Sir Giles Gilbert Scott OM RA FRIBA (9 November 1880 – 8 February 1960) was a British architect known for his work on the New Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Battersea Power Station, Liverpool Cathedral, and designing the iconic red telephone box.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, OM (* 9. November 1880 in Hampstead; † 8. Februar 1960 in London) war ein britischer Architekt. Er ist bekannt für Gebäude wie die Liverpool Cathedral, die Kraftwerke Bankside Power Station und Battersea Power Station oder die Bibliothek der Universität Cambridge.
22. Apr. 2024 · Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (born Nov. 9, 1880, London, Eng.—died Feb. 8, 1960, London) was an English architect who designed numerous public buildings in the eclectic style of simplified historical modes often termed 20th-century traditionalism.
6. Feb. 2024 · Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880 -1960) a great architect advocating a ‘middle’ of tradition & modernity. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott features on the British passport.
The red telephone box, is a telephone kiosk for a public telephone designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect responsible for Liverpool Cathedral. The telephone box is a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, its associated Crown Dependencies, British Overseas Territories and Malta.
Giles Gilbert Scott was born in Hampstead, London, on 9 November 1880. He came from a long architectural tradition. His father was the architect George Gilbert Scott, Jr. (1839-1897) and his grandfather was the architect George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878).
Born in the city in 1880 to a family of architects – Scott’s grandfather designed the imposing Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station – he developed his own eclectic style that fused elements of Modernism with the Neo-Gothic.
