Ove Arup
continued
introduction •
early education •
Christiani & Nielsen •
London •
Lubetkin & Tecton •
war years •
consultant & partner •
Sydney Opera House •
Kingsgate footbridge •
character •
total design •
selected works •
sources
Selected works
EARLY CAREER
| 1922-3 | Working for Christiani & Nielsen, Hamburg office |
| 1923 | Moves to London office of Cristiani & Nielsen as chief designer |
| 1932-3 | Labworth Café ... architect: Ove Arup |
| 1933 | Gorilla House, London Zoo ... architect: Berthold Lubetkin, Tecton |
| 1934-8 | Director and chief designer at J.L. Kier & Co |
| 1934-5 | Highpoint I ... architect: Berthold Lubetkin, Tecton |
| 1935 | Penguin Pool, London Zoo ... architect: Berthold Lubetkin, Tecton | 1935 | Working-class residential flats ... competition win |
| 1937 | Finsbury Housing Projects |
| 1937-8 | Highpoint II ... architect: Berthold Lubetkin, Tecton |
ARUP & ARUP LTD
| 1938 | Sets up Arup & Arup Ltd with Arne Arup, his cousin |
| 1938 | Finsbury Health Centre ... architect: Berthold Lubetkin, Tecton |
| 1938-9 | Double-helix underground shelter, Finsbury ... unbuilt, architect: Ove Arup, Berthold Lubetkin, Francis Skinner |
| 1943-4 | Mulberry Harbour pierhead fendering ... with Ronald Jenkins |
| 1944 | Arcon prefabricated housing ... steel frame design |
| 1945-51 | Brynmawr Rubber Factory ... architect: Architect's Co-Partnership |
| 1946 | April 1st, Arup & Arup Ltd dissolved |
OVE N. ARUP CONSULTING ENGINEERS
| 1946 | April 1st - 6th, Ove N. Arup Consulting Engineers established |
| 1946 | Bus Station and Office, Dublin ... architect: Michael Scott |
OVE ARUP & PARTNERS
| 1949 | Ove Arup & Partners establised ... partners: Ove Arup, Ronald Jenkins, Geoffrey Wood, Andrew Young |
| 1949-54 | Hunstanton Secondary Modern School ... architect: Alison and Peter Smithson |
| 1951 | Festival of Britain footbridge |
| 1951 | Aero Research factory, Duxford |
| 1951-6 | Bank of England Printing Works ... architect: Easton & Robertson |
| 1953 | Ove Aup awarded CBE |
| 1955 | Ove Arup & Partners West Africa, and Ove Arup & Partners South Africa established |
| 1956 | Peter Dunican appointed partner |
| 1956 | Hallfield Primary School ... architect: Drake & Lasdun |
| 1956-62 | Coventry Cathedral ... architect: Sir Basil Spence | 1957 | TUC Congress Memorial Building ... architect: David du R. Aberdeen |
| 1957-73 | Sydney Opera House ... architect: Jørn Utzon |
| 1959 | Ove Arup & Partners Rhodesia established |
| 1959-60 | St James' Place, London ... architect: Sir Denys Lasdun |
| 1960 | Ove Arup & Partners Scotland established |
| 1960-4 | Royal College of Physicians ... architect: Sir Denys Lasdun |
| 1960-4 | St Catherine's College, Oxford ... architect: Arne Jacobson |
| 1961 | Ronald Hobbs appointed partner |
| 1961-3 | Kingsgate footbridge |
| 1961-3 | Smithfield Poultry Market ... architect: T.P. Bennet & Son |
| 1962 | Falmer House, University of Sussex ... architect: Sir Basil Spence |
| 1963 | Arup Associates established as an architectural practice |
| 1963 | Ove Arup & Partners Ireland, and Ove Arup & Partners Sierra Leone established |
| 1964 | Ove Arup & Partners Australia established |
| 1965 | Povl Ahm and Jack Zunz appointed partners |
| 1965 | Ove Arup & Partners Nigeria, and Ove Arup & Partners Ghana established, West Africa dissolved |
| 1965-70 | Snape Maltings Concert Hall ... architect: John Donat |
| 1966 | Ove Aup awarded RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture |
| 1966 | Ove Arup & Partners Zambia, and Ove Arup & Partners Malaysia established |
| 1966 | UK partnership reformed as Ove Arup & Partners Consulting Engineers and Arup Associates |
| 1966 | Ove Arup awarded IStructE Maitland Medal |
| 1967-72 | York Minster central tower underpinning |
| 1968 | Ove Arup & Partners Jamaica established |
| 1969 | Philip Dowson appointed partner |
| 1970 | Ove Arup knighted for services to architecture and engineering |
| 1970 | Ove Arup Partnership becomes parent firm to Ove Arup & Partners and Arup Associates |
| 1970 | Ove Arup & Partners Singapore established |
| 1971-7 | Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris ... architect: Rogers & Piano |
| 1972 | Ronald Jenkins retires |
| 1973 | Ove Arup awarded IStructE Gold Medal |
| 1977 | Ove Aup Partnership reconstituted, trust ownership established |
| 1978 | Geoffrey Wood retires |
| 1978-85 | Lloyds of London HQ ... architect: Richard Rogers Partnership |
| 1979-86 | Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank HQ ... architect: Foster and Partners |
| 1980 | Arup Acoustics established |
| 1984 | Peter Dunican retires |
| 1985-91 | Stansted Airport, Main Terminal ... architect: Foster and Partners |
| 1986 | Ove Arup elected Honorary Royal Academician |
| 1988 | February 5th Ove Arup dies |
| 1989 | The Ove Arup Foundation established |
LATER NOTABLE ARUP PROJECTS
| 1990-94 | Kansai International Airport terminal building, Osaka Bay, Japan ... architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop |
| 1992 | Ove Arup Partnership becomes a company owned in trust for the benefit of employees |
| 1996-00 | Øresund Bridge ... linking Sweden and Denmark |
| 1997-04 | 30 St Mary Axe (Swiss Re) ... architect: Foster and Partners |
| 1998-02 | Millennium Bridge, London ... architect: Foster and Partners with Sir Anthony Caro |
| 1999 | Ove Arup Partnership becomes a limited company |
| 1999-01 | National Museum of Australia, Canberra ... architect: Howard Raggatt, ARM |
| 1999-07 | Terminal 4, JFK Airport, New York ... architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
| 2000 | The name 'Arup' adopted for the whole group |
introduction •
early education •
Christiani & Nielsen •
London •
Lubetkin & Tecton •
war years •
consultant & partner •
Sydney Opera House •
Kingsgate footbridge •
character •
total design •
selected works •
sources
All items by Ove Arup •
All items by Ove Arup & Partners •
All items by Arup •
Everything built ... 1895 - 1988
