Sir Colin Alexander St John ("Sandy") Wilson, FRIBA, RA, (14 March 1922 – 14 May 2007) was a British architect, lecturer and author. He spent over 30 years progressing the project to build a new British Library in London, originally planned to be built in Bloomsbury and now completed near Kings Cross. Wikipedia
Professor Wilson once described his addiction to collecting thus: Only the fellow addict can understand the catch in the breath and the thumping heart of love-at-first-sight that signals the next (absolute must) acquisition. www.pallant.org.uk/phg/externalhtml/collection/majorgifts...
Professor Sir Colin Wilson, who taught architecture at Cambridge University, also developed plans for the British Museum and Liverpool's Civic Centre. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6659483.stm
The staff of the British Library were saddened to hear of the death, on Monday 14 May, of Sir Colin St John Wilson, the hugely influential architect best known for designing the British Library at St Pancras. www.bl.uk/sandywilson.html
Wilson was born in Cheltenham, the younger son of Henry Wilson, rector and rural dean there, and from 1929 Bishop of Chelmsford (known as "the red bishop" for his support of the republican cause in the Spanish civil war). www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2080261,00.html
The Wilson Collection Although Colin St John Wilson (Sandy to his friends) is best known as the architect of the British Library he has also been a practising artist and an ardent art collector throughout his life. www.pallant.org.uk/phg/externalhtml/collection/majorgifts...
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... May 17, 2007 Professor Sir Colin St John Wilson Architect whose most celebrated, and challenging, achievement was the splendid new building for the British Library... www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article18009...
