Jan Kaplický Jan Kaplický Jan Kaplický (; ; 18 April 1937 – 14 January 2009) was a world-renowned Neofuturistic Czech architect who spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom. He was the leading architect behind the innovative design office, Future Systems. He was best known for the neofuturistic Selfridges Building in Birmingham, England, and the Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground in London. Jan Kaplický, the only child of a sculptor and a botanical illustrator, was born on 18 April 1937 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and grew up in a suburb of Prague called Ořechovka. Between 1956 and 1962
John Storrs (architect) tasting room in 1977, with his final project as a conversion of a closed mattress factory into the John's Landing Water Tower building with retail and office space. Storrs' most notable design is the Salishan Lodge resort at Gleneden Beach, Oregon, along the Oregon Coast. Storrs studied the culinary arts in London in the 1970s, but only prepared meals for his family and friends. He died on August 31, 2003, in Portland at the age of 83. John Storrs (architect) John W. Storrs (1920 – August 31, 2003) was an American architect in Oregon. A native of Connecticut, the World