Real Architecture: Tony Fretton presents the British Embassy Warsaw

Weds 12 December 2003 7pm

  • British Embassy, Warsaw Tony Fretton
  • British Embassy, Warsaw Tony Fretton
  • British Embassy, Warsaw by Tony Fretton
  • British Embassy, Warsaw model design by Tony Fretton
  • British Embassy, Warsaw model design by Tony Fretton

Ever since the Lisson Gallery opened in the early 1990s, Tony Fretton has demonstrated one of the most astute creative intelligences in contemporary architecture. He has a particular ability to respond to both artists and social issues within a subtle and restrained architectural technique.

His practice had recently won the competition to design the new British Embassy in Warsaw, which represented a great leap forward both for Fretton's practice, and for the commissioning of architecture by the British government.