Jan Kaplickys Selfridges department store, Birmingham
Jan Kaplicky's Selfridges department store, Birmingham

The world-renowned Czech architect and founder of Future Systems – who designed Lord’s media centre and Birmingham Selfridges – has died

Kaplicky collapsed and died in Prague last night. He was 71.

He is best known in the UK for designing the hugely popular Selfridges building in Birmingham and the Lord’s cricket ground media centre which won the Stirling Prize in 1999.

from THE ARCHITECTS’ JOURNAL