Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880–1960) was a British architect noted for blending the Gothic tradition with modernism, and the designer of the red telephone box. Born in Hampstead, London, into a family of architects, he was the grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott, designer of the Albert Memorial, and became an articled pupil of Temple Moore in 1899. His industrial buildings include Battersea Power Station and Bankside Power Station, now Tate Modern. He was president of the RIBA in 1933 and received its Royal Gold Medal in 1925.
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In 1903, aged 22 and with no buildings to his name, he was chosen as architect of Liverpool Cathedral (1978); the Lady Chapel was consecrated in 1910, and the cathedral was finished nearly two decades after his death. Cambridge University Library (1934), built from 1931, has a 157-foot tower that John D. Rockefeller persuaded him to add for a grander entrance. For the New Bodleian Library in Oxford, now the Weston Library (1940), he had to store millions of books without rising above the neighbouring buildings, so he built deep into the ground behind two low façades.
