Robert Atkinson (architect)

Robert Atkinson, OBE (August 1, 1883 – December 26, 1952) was an English architect primarily working in the Art Deco style.

Atkinson was born in Wigton, Cumberland and studied at University College, Nottingham before studying abroad in Paris, Italy and America. He was a talented draughtsman and worked for C.E. Mallows from 1905. In turn he illustrated many of the town planning and garden designs of Thomas Hayton Mawson, included in the latter's books The Art and Craft of Garden Making, and Civic Art (1911), to which he contributed a number of skilled perspective views. He was awarded an OBE in 1951 shortly before his death.

Works

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham

The following is a selection of his works:

• Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham (won an award in 1938)
• All Hallows Twickenham (incorporating portions moved from All Hallows Lombard Street)
• Eros Cinema, Shaftesbury Avenue, London (demolished)
• Daily Express Building, London (lobby interior)
• Cannon Royal Cinema, Charing Cross Road, London
• Regent Cinema, Brighton
• Gresham Hotel, Dublin
• Croydon 'B' power station
• Wallington Town Hall
• Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, Taplow, Bucks (in grounds of Cliveden)
• City Hall, Norwich (site plan)

References

• Paul Spencer-Longhurst, ‘Atkinson, Robert (1883–1952)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2007 accessed 16 Feb 2008

External links

• Robert Atkinson (architect) at the archINFORM database
• Gresham Hotel at Irish-architecture.com
• List of closed and/or demolished cinemas by Atkinson