Yorke Rosenberg Mardall
Yorke Rosenberg Mardall (YRM) was a British architectural firm established by F. R. S. Yorke (1906-1962), Eugene Rosenberg (1907-1990) and Cyril Mardall (Sjöström) (1909-1994) in 1944. 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.[1] 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 (1929-33) in Prague designed by Josef Havlíček and Karel Honzik and worked on by Rosenberg.[2] Their main field of work was hospitals, schools, colleges, offices and industrial buildings[3] as well as Gatwick airport.[4] In 2011 the company was sold to RMJM.[5]
Main works
- Gatwick Airport (1958-88)
- YRM Offices, Greystoke Place, London (1961)
- Crawley Hospital (1961)
- Liverpool University Electrical Engineering Building (1965)
- University of Warwick (1966)
- Hull Royal Infirmary (1967)
- Cottam power stations (1969)
- Luton Airport Britannia Airways Hangar (1970)
- Manchester Magistrates Courts (1971)
- Sizewell B (1971-95)
- John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford (1972)
- Lynemouth power station (1972)
- St Thomas' Hospital (1966-1976)
- YRM Offices, Britton Street, London (1976)
- Alied Dunbar Centre Swindon (1980)
- Humana Hospital London (1982)[6]
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
