[online] Buildings for Sport & Leisure: 3. Hopkins: Building for sport, Mike Taylor
[online] Buildings for Sport & Leisure Lecture Series: 3. Hopkins: Building for sport, Mike Taylor
Thursday 6 November 2025 at 6.30pm – 8pm
Hopkins Architects have designed some of the most dramatic and innovative sports buildings of recent years including the Mound Stand at Lord’s cricket ground (1987), the Olympic Velodrome (2011) and the new covered courts for the All England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon. Mike Taylor, lead architect for both the Velodrome and Wimbledon schemes, will talk about the technical and design challenges of international sports venues like these and the solutions they found.
Mike Taylor is a principal at Hopkins Architects. He studied at Bristol Univesity and the Mackintosh School of Architecture. After working with Giancarlo De Carlo he joined the Hopkins’ practice in 1992. His other projects include The Living Planet Centre for WWF, The School of Environmental Science at Yale, and The Frick Chemistry Laboratory at Princeton.
The evening will also serve as the book launch of C20's new publication '100 Twentieth Century Sports and Leisure Buildings' (Twentieth Century Society/Batsford, 2025).
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C20 Society Member £6;
Non-Member £8;
Young C20 member free*;
Student £4 **
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Note: This event is hybrid and is being run both in-person at Cowcross Street Gallery and online via Zoom. The event will be recorded and offered as a catch-up lecture for those who have booked and will be available for two weeks.
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Image above: Lee Valley Velodrome
Image credit: © Michael Taylor for Hopkins
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