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
Jan Bárta (architect) Jan Bárta (architect) Jan Bárta (born 9 August 1942 in Prague) is a Czech architect and preservationist. He has written several books about historic preservation and is a specialist in the area of facades and plaster on historic buildings. He is also known as an advocate for restoration of the monument of Josef Radetzky in Prague, which was removed in 1921. In 1991 Jan Bárta together with chemist Jiří Rathouský founded a company to produce facade colours, hydrophobic coats and other chemicals aimed for restoration of historic houses. It has been the exclusive supplier of facade colours for the historic