Rodney Gordon

He was the primary architect of the Tricorn Centre, Portsmouth, and Trinity Square, Gateshead.

Architecturally, his works were primarily in concrete; he was said to be a brutalist and his buildings have been described as "dramatic, sculptural and enormous" as well as "futuristic".

[5][6] His mother was from the naval port of Punta Arenas, Tierra Del Fuego, the southernmost city on Earth, overlooking the Straits of Magellan.

He went to University College Hospital Medical School at the age of 16 but then, two years later inspired by the Festival of Britain, he switched to the Hammersmith School of Building, going on to the Architectural Association School of Architecture, where he studied under the distinguished German Jewish modernist architect and urban planner Arthur Korn, before graduating in 1957.

[3] In 1979 he designed his last work for Batir, a bronze- and aluminium-clad commercial complex on St James's Street, London.