The Architects: Eldred Evans and David Shalev
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in Tate Archive CollectionThe architects, Eldred Evans and David Shalev, were selected in a national architectural competition held in 1990. Designers of the award-winning Truro Law Courts, their plans for Tate St Ives were commended by both the Royal Fine Art Commission and by English Heritage.
The husband and wife team have been in private practice since
1965. Eldred Evans studied at the Architectural Association and at Yale University.
Her father, the painter Merlyn Evans, spent much time in St Ives. David Shalev
studied at the Technion School of Architecture, Israel.
Their projects have included Newport High School in Gwent (1969-72), a Children's Reception Centre, St John's Wood, London (1970-75), a home for Younger Physically Disabled People in Camden (1972-76) and Dana Works - an industrial development for precision engineering in Paddock Wood, Kent (1981-83). Other projects include: Ellis House, Twickenham, the Levy House and the 'Centrum' office building both in London.
Their Courts of Justice in Truro, Cornwall (1985-88) won a number of awards including the Architects' Journal's Building of the Year, the Financial Times' Architecture at Work Award and the Royal Fine Art Commission and Sunday Times' Building of the Year Award.
Competitions won include Broadclyst Village for the National Trust, Devon (1965), The Taoiseach's Residence and State Guest House, Phoenix Park, Dublin (1979), and the Royal Military College Library, Shrivenham (1981). They won the competition to design Tate St Ives in 1990.
Evans and Shalev have taught at the Architectural Association and other schools of architecture in the UK.
