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
Edward Blum (architect) of the building almost like a textile, a rich continuous surface. They avoid any detail found in the traditional classical vocabulary. They use mosaic tile, art tile, very elongated Roman brick and sinuous panels of terra cotta. Their copperwork, for store trim or entrance canopies, is richly worked, like the cover of a medieval manuscript. Their ironwork cannot be found in any catalogue." Edward Blum died in Sunnyside, Queens, New York, aged 77. Edward Blum (architect) Edward Blum (1867–1944) was an architect, born in Paris who, with his brother George, designed apartment and office buildings, most of which are in