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Gibberd

British

/ ˈɡɪbəd /

noun

Sir Frederick. 1908–84, British architect and town planner. His buildings include the Liverpool Roman Catholic cathedral (1960–67) and the Regent's Park Mosque in London (1977). Harlow in the U.K. and Santa Teresa in Venezuela were built to his plans

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Education minister Robert Halfon described the situation at Frederick Gibberd College in Harlow, which is in his constituency, as "shocking".

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2023

Ben Gibberd, the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie, offered a Mariners’ rendition of John Fogerty’s “Centerfield.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2020

Plans from 1965 showed eight cooling towers standing together before Gibberd reduced the number to six and constructed them in two sets of three, a mile apart, to mitigate their visual impact.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2019

Another was chosen by the architect Frederick Gibberd for the new London airport at Heathrow.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2013

It turned out to have been executed by Congregationalist Frederick Gibberd, 59, the architect and city planner responsible for London's Heathrow Airport and the new town of Harlow.

From Time Magazine Archive

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