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18 Feb 2017
Richard Burton Obituary
Richard Burton Obituary by The Guardian
Richard St John Vladimir Burton, architect, born 3 November 1933; died 29 January 2017
Richard Burton, who has died aged 83, was a third of the architectural partnership of Ahrends, Burton & Koralek (ABK), alongside Peter Ahrends and Paul Koralek.
Roscommon County Council Civic Offices, Connacht, Ireland, by ABK:

photograph : Christian Richters
It is not particularly rare that three architects should meet as students and go on to practise together, but most unusual that all three should be involved in design and should remain lifelong friends. Kilmallock Civic Building, County Limerick, Ireland, by ABK:

photog : Christian Richters
The partnership survived controversy when its competition-winning extension to the National Gallery in London was dubbed a ?monstrous carbuncle? by the Prince of Wales in 1984 and cancelled, and it became one of the few architecture practices founded in the early 1960s to span the gulf between the public and private sectors.
John Wheatley College, Glasgow, Scotland, by ABK:

photo © Keith Hunter
His last major project was a book about his own house, with James O Davies, which is suffused with love for his close-knit family and the craft of art and architecture.
He is...