Editing Future Systems (section)

==Practice==
Future Systems proposals adapted construction methods from other professions, including (most commonly) the curved [[monocoque]] shell structures found in [[aircraft design process|aircraft design]], [[car design]] and [[boat building]].

In the 1990s the company moved from theoretical projects to fee-paying work with projects such as the "spacecraft-like"<ref name="Booth">{{cite news |first=Robert |last=Booth |title=Radical architect Jan Kaplický dies |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jan/15/architect-jan-kaplicky-dies |work=The Guardian |date=15 January 2009 |access-date=20 August 2009}}</ref> [[Lord's Media Centre|Media Centre]] at [[Lord's Cricket Ground]] in London (completed 1999), and the Selfridges Building (completed 2003). For Lord's, Kaplicky received the [[Stirling Prize]]. The [[Selfridges Building, Birmingham|Selfridges]] department store is a prime example of the early 21st century movement referred to as "[[blobitecture]]", and has been compared to [[Peter Cook (architect)|Peter Cook]]'s [[Kunsthaus Graz|Kunsthaus]] in [[Graz]], Austria.

After Future Systems won the Stirling Prize, the firm received larger commissions including the Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena, Italy (2009)<ref>{{cite news |title=Designed for the fast lane |url=http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=818 |publisher=World Architecture News |date= 15 January 2007|access-date=20 August 2009}}</ref> and the unbuilt new [[Czech National Library]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-06 |title=ZUKUNFT VON GESTERN. Visionäre Entwürfe von Future Systems und Archigram {{!}} DAM Online |url=https://dam-online.de/veranstaltung/archiv-zukunft-von-gestern-visionare-entwurfe-von-future-systems-und-archigram-2/ |access-date=2023-06-04 |language=de-DE}}</ref> In 2008 Kaplický and Levete split the firm. Kaplický took the firm name and some staff to the Czech Republic, and Levete would take a proposed new headquarters for News Corporation in east London and a commission for a hotel and retail complex in Bangkok, Thailand, along with most of the staff – between 35 and 45 people.<ref>{{cite news |first=Robert |last=Booth |title=From a shining future to a bitter end as 'blob' architecture pioneers part company |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/oct/17/architecture |work=The Guardian |date=17 October 2008 |access-date=20 August 2009}}</ref>