Eric Parry

By Giovanna Dunmall

THE MAN

Eric Parry is a British architect as interested in the world of art as in the art of making buildings, and he usually combines the two. He has recently completed a hotly contested glass-and-ceramic extension for the Holburne museum of 19th-century art in Bath, along with an ethereal new spa for the Four Seasons Hotel in Park Lane, London, which he filled with elegant granite and limestone sculptures by the sculptor Stephen Cox. He is also the man behind the renovation of one of London’s best-known churches, St Martin-in-the-Fields, for which the Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary designed a daring new window. And his practice is working on the redevelopment and refurbishment of seven existing buildings in Piccadilly, for whose newly united façade the artist Richard Deacon is creating a dramatic ceramic artwork.