Future Systems Partners to become a partner. 1994 Completed the well received Hauer-King house in Islington. 1999 Won the Stirling Prize for Lord's Cricket Ground media centre. 2003 Completed the Selfridges building at the regenerated Bull Ring shopping centre in Birmingham. 2007 Won the commission for the controversial Czech National Library. 2008 Split into two practices after Kaplicky and Levete officially separate as business partners. 2008 Submits design of London Routemaster bus. 2008 Czech National Library project cancelled by Prague authorities. 2009 Jan Kaplický dies on 14 January 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. A month later the final few staff working for
The Age of the Medici walk about magnificent locations, sounding and looking like ferociously gifted dress-extras. The talk has been rather flatly dubbed into English so that it's not always possible to tell who is speaking.Forget these problems, though. The film is about what is being said and what you can see around and behind these figures. When you connect with "The Age of the Medici", it has the effect of reducing every other film you've seen recently to the status of an ornament. In his book, "Un Esprit Libre" ("A Free Spirit"), published in France in 1977, the year he died, Rossellini wrote of