Eva Jiricna

Eva formed her own small but thriving practice in the autumn of 1985, having lived and worked in London since 1968. The practice has an international reputation, and a broad scope of work including prestigious retail and commercial projects as well as product and exhibition design.

Once the ‘Velvet Revolution’ brought down the Iron Curtain, she was finally able to return to her native Prague and work on a variety of projects there, including the Eastern European headquarters for Andersen Consulting in the controversial Gehry building, a new glasshouse in the grounds of Prague’s Castle, as the personal architectural consultant to President Havel, a couple of one off residential schemes, and currently a new hotel in central Prague.

Eva's early experience with the Louis de Soissons Partnership on Brighton Marina in the '70's and Richard Rogers for the Lloyds building in the '80's served her in good stead as she acquired experience and displayed an innate flair for working with unusual materials.

In 2000 the practice completed the Faith Zone for the Millennium Dome which proved popular with the general public despite the overwhelming negativity displayed by the press. Other recent projects include offices for Amec plc in London, fastidiously realised schemes for jewellers Boodle and Dunthorne and Time Products, the Kimberlin Library Extension at De Montfort University in Leicester and Canada Water Bus Station, part of the Jubilee Line Extension project, which has received several awards. Eva Jiricna was made a Royal Designer for Industry in 1991, received a CBE in 1994 for services to design, and was elected as a Royal Academician in 1997.

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