Richard Seifert

Richard Seifert (born Reubin Seifert; 25 November 1910 – 26 October 2001 ) was a Swiss-British architect, best known for designing London's NatWest Tower (now officially named Tower 42), once the tallest building in the United Kingdom, and Centre Point.

His eponymously named practice – R. Seifert and Partners (later the R. Seifert Company and Partnership) was at its most prolific in the 1960s and 1970s, responsible for many major office buildings in Central London as well as large urban regeneration projects in other major British cities.

Biography Seifert was born to a Swiss family and came to London when young. He attended the Central Foundation Boys' School and subsequently obtained a scholarship to the Bartlett School of Architecture, graduating in 1933.

Seifert and his company were responsible for more London buildings than Sir Christopher Wren and designed more than 500 office blocks across the UK and Europe.

List of works London and suburbs

90 Long Acre, Westminster Barnet House, High Road, Totteridge and Whetstone Blackfriars Station, Queen Victoria Street, City of London (1977 design, building was redesigned in 2012) Beagle House, Tower Hamlets Britannia Hotel (The Biltmore, Mayfair Hotel), Grosvenor Square, Mayfair Centre Point, New Oxford Street, Camden Corinthian House, Lansdowne Road, Croydon Drapers Gardens, Throgmorton Avenue, City of London (demolished) Essoldo Paddington Cinema, Great Western Road, Westminster (demolished) Euston Station, Eversholt Street, Camden Farryner House, Monument Street, City of London Goodhart Place, Horseferry Road, Limehouse Kensington Forum (built as Penta hotel), Cromwell Road, Kensington Kings Mall, King Street, Hammersmith 1980 Kellogg House, Baker Street, Westminster Limebank House, Gracechurch Street, City of London (demolished) London Metropole Hotel, Edgware Road, Westminster New Printing House Square, Gray's Inn Road, Camden New London Bridge House, 5 London Bridge Street, Southwark (demolished – site now occupied by The News Building) No. 1 Croydon (the NLA Tower), Addiscombe Road, Croydon One Kemble Street (Space House), off Kingsway, Camden 1, 2 & 3 St John's Square, Finsbury (now known as Gate House, 1 St John's Square, Clerkenwell, Islington) Riverside Baths, Erith, Kent (demolished) Royal Lancaster Hotel, Lancaster Gate, W2. (1967) (Originally intended to be the offices of the Rank Organisation)

Sobell Leisure Centre, Islington (1973) South Bank Tower, Stamford Street, Southwark The Pirate Castle, Oval Road, Camden Town, North London Tolworth Tower, Ewell Road, Tolworth, Kingston upon Thames Tower 42, Bishopsgate, City of London Wembley Conference Centre, Wembley, Middlesex Windsor House, London, Victoria Street Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington

Outside London

Alpha Tower, Birmingham Anderston Centre, Glasgow (partly demolished 2005-08) Concourse House, Liverpool (demolished 2009) Elmbank Gardens, Glasgow (partly demolished 2026) Heron House, Glasgow Hilton House, Hilton Street, Manchester Gateway House, Piccadilly Approach, Manchester (1969) Metropole Hotel, Birmingham Sussex Heights, Brighton Hexagon Tower, Manchester