Yorke Rosenberg Mardall (Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall, YRM) was a British

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established by

F. R. S. Yorke Francis Reginald Stevens Yorke (3 December 1906 – 10 June 1962), known professionally as F. R. S. Yorke and informally as Kay or K, was an English architect and author. One of the first native British architects to design in a modernist style, h ...

(1906-1962),

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(1907-1990) and Cyril Mardall (Sjöström) (1909-1994) in 1944.Melvin, Jeremy (1997). Obituary: David Allford. The Independent. Monday 18 August 1997.

History

The international character of this modernist firm was created by Rosenberg, born in Slovakia and who practised architecture in Prague before the Second World War, and Mardall, born in Finland, as well as by the number of staff from all parts of the world. Their most notable trademark was the use of white ceramic tiles for the treatment of external façades inspired by Le Corbusier's use of tiles on the entrance drum of the Armée de Salut (1929) in Paris and the General Pensions Institute (1929–34) in Prague designed by Josef Havlíček and Karel Honzík and worked on by Rosenberg. Their main field of work was hospitals, schools, colleges, offices and industrial buildings as well as

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. David Allford became a partner in 1958, becoming joint senior partner in 1975. The company was floated on the stock market in 1987 as YRM plc, with David Allford as chairman. In 2011 the company was sold to

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Notable projects

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(formerly Queensmead Secondary Modern School) (1953) *

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(1958–88) * YRM Offices, Greystoke Place, London (1961) *

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(1961) * Liverpool University Electrical Engineering Building (1965) *

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(1966) *

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(1967) * Control and Briefing Building,

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(1967) *

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(1969) *

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Britannia Airways Hangar (1970) * Manchester Magistrates Courts (1971) * Keddie's Store,

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(1971) * Sizewell B (1971–95) *

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Oxford (1972) * Lynemouth power station (1972) *

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(1966-1975) * YRM Offices, Britton Street, London (1976) * Alied Dunbar Centre Swindon (1980) * Humana Hospital London (1982)

References

Literature

* ''The Architecture of Yorke Rosenberg Mardall'', Lund Humphries, London 1972. * Alan Powers, ''In the Line of Development: FRS Yorke, E Rosenberg and CS Mardall to YRM, 1930-1992'', RIBA Heinz Gallery, London, 1992 * Jeremy Melvin, ''FRS Yorke and the Evolution of English Modernism'', Wiley-Academy, London, 2003 * Ivan Margolius, Honzík and Yorke: How a Czech Architect Became the Prime Mover in the Ascent of Modern Architecture in Great Britain, ''The British Czech and Slovak Review'', Winter 2017, no. 157, pp. 6 – 7

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