Architect who played a significant role in the making of the Queen Elizabeth Hall complex in London and the National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace
As an architect with the London county council, Norman Engleback, who has died aged 88, was the leading hand in two of the capital’s most distinctive postwar buildings: the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery complex for the South Bank; and the National Recreation Centre at Crystal Palace (now known as the National Sports Centre).
In 1953, the year Leslie Martin became chief architect of the LCC, he gave Engleback an office next to his and groomed him as his protege, designing one-off buildings and troubleshooting individual problems. Throughout his career, Martin developed his ideas through younger collaborators, and Engleback was the first of these to hold a permanent post.
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