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
Main Building of the Ministry of Defense (Russia) Main Building of the Ministry of Defense (Russia) The Main Building of the Russian Defense Ministry is the headquarters of the Russian Ministry of Defense, located in Moscow, Russia. The building was designed by Russian architect Lev Rudnev and was renovated by Mikhail Posokhin who was the main architect of Moscow (1960–1982). Ground was broken for construction on 1940, and the building was dedicated on 1952. The main ministry building, built in the 1940s and renovated in the 1980s, is located on Arbatskaya Square, near Arbat Street. Other buildings of the ministry are located throughout the city of Moscow. The