Portrait of Sir Basil Urwin Spence
Sir Basil Urwin Spence (13 August 1907 - 19 November 1976)~~~~Sir Basil Urwin Spence was a Scottish architect, most notable for his work building a new Coventry Cathedral, after the old one had been gutted in World War 2. It was for this work that he was knighted in 1960.~~~~He would go on to design the Beehive Executive Wing of Parliament, as well as many other buildings in modernist/ brutalist style
Picture No
10582892
Media ID
47541293
Size
3700px x 4552px
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Credit
(c) Illustrated London News/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Howard Coster in The Tatler, 6 April 1955
Date
1955
