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Sir Arnold Joseph Philip Powell (born, died 5 May 2003 in London aged 82), usually called Philip Powell, was the ground-innovative British post-war architect.

He was a father of "Humane modernism", & is noted for designing a Festival Theatre. He too designed a Skylon, a Churchill Gardens flat complex inside Pimlico & a independent Home at Chichester.

He founded the practice sustaining Hidalgo Moya, Powell & Moya Architect Practice. It won the competition to build Churchill Gardens, Pimlico, the complex that houses 5,000 humans within 1,800 flats. It were aged 2 dozen & 23 severally.

It designed a Skylon Installation at a 1951 Festival of Britain, which sought to instil a feel of caring feeling at once of postwar depression.

Powell designed the Putney school, the total of Oxford & Cambridge University buildings including at Wolfson and Christ Church, a court at the Museum of London and Chichester Festival Theatre.

Within 1974 Powell & Moya became a number one to win a RIBA Gold Medal for architecture as a Practice.

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