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==History== 1979 Founded by Jan Kaplicky and David Nixon while working at Foster Associates. 1989 Joined by [[Amanda Levete]] who arrives from Richard Rogers & Partners to become a partner. 1994 Completed the well received Hauer-King house in Canonbury, Islington, London. 1999 Won the Stirling Prize for Lord's Cricket Ground [[Lord's Media Centre|media centre]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mark |first=Laura |date=2015-10-06 |title=Twenty years of the RIBA Stirling Prize |url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/twenty-years-of-the-riba-stirling-prize |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=The Architects’ Journal |language=en}}</ref> 2003 Completed the Selfridges building at the regenerated Bull Ring shopping centre in Birmingham. 2007 Won the commission for the controversial Czech National Library. 2008 Split into two practices after Kaplicky and Levete officially separate as business partners. 2008 Submits design of London Routemaster bus.<ref>{{cite news |author=Staff Writer |title=Future Systems' London Routemaster bus|url=http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3130978|publisher=BD Online, The Architects Website|date=8 January 2008 |access-date=14 September 2009}}</ref> 2008 Czech National Library project cancelled by Prague authorities.<ref name="Staff Writer"/> 2009 Jan Kaplický dies on 14 January 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic.<ref name="Booth"/> A month later the final few staff working for Kaplický/Future Systems in Levete's offices were let go.<ref name="Staff Writer">{{cite news |last=Staff Writer |title=Levete confirms Kaplicky job cuts |url=http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3134263 |publisher=BD Online, The Architects Website |date=19 February 2009 |access-date=20 August 2009}}</ref>
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