Jan Kaplický state and you can't separate the two." 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
Theatre square in Bydgoszcz now Śniadecki Street N°4. The building was designed by Bydgoszcz architect on the site of an earlier building originating from the first half of the 19th century. On the ground floor were established shops, including hats and furs retailers. In 1940, a ground floor arcade has been added, designed by Jan Kossowski, as he did at the same period on opposite building (Theatre square 6). 1901-1902, by Vienna Secession, Eclecticism Registered on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage list: N°601292, Reg. A/849, April 22, 1996 The building at then-"Wilhelmstraße 17" has been built to be a renting tenement, owned by Mr. Rapiewocki,