Michael Hopkins

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The Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre, opened in 1985, was one of Hopkins' earliest buildings and shows his distinctive use of a suspended, high-tech, fabric roof.

Sir Michael Hopkins CBE (b. May 5 1935) is a British architect. His buildings include the extension to Glyndebourne Opera House, the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham, the Mound Stand at Lord's Cricket Ground, accommodation for British Members of Parliament at Portcullis House, extension to the Manchester City Art Gallery and the new building for the Wellcome Trust.

Along with his wife, also an architect, he received the 1994 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture.

Wellcome Trust building on Euston Road.

Portcullis House, Westminster, London.

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