Gordon Ryder

Gordon Ryder (1919–2000) OBE was a modernist architect and co-founder with Peter Yates of Ryder and Yates, described by Historic England as "the most important post-war architectural practice in the north-east of England"[1] for their modernist buildings in the 1960s.

Key projects were two buildings for Northern Gas in Killingworth; the Northern Gas Board offices built in 1963 and subsequently the Gas Council Engineering Research Station (1966-7), "a cool Corbusian building of white concrete",[2] which won the Financial Times' industrial architecture award in 1968, and a Royal Institute of British Architects award the following year.

[4] The Research Station was Grade II* listed on 27 January 1997 by English Heritage (Historic England since 2015).

[5] Other projects included social housing at North Kenton and major buildings for the Salvation Army, Tyne Tees Television and Vickers Armaments.

[citation needed] 'Trees', a private house built in Woolsington, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1967–68, was listed Grade II in 2010.