Future Systems From 1989 - 2009 Amanda Levete was a partner alongside her partner
Jan Kaplicky at
Future Systems. Notable projects include the RIBA Stirling Prize winning
Lord’s Media Centre, and the
Selfridges Birmingham store within the Bullring shopping centre. Their curvaceous buildings, made possible by new computer aided design technologies have been referred to as ‘blobitecture’.
AL_A In 2009, Levete established AL_A (formerly known as Amanda Levete Architecture) following the end of her 20-year partnership with the late Jan Kaplický at Future Systems. The practice gained recognition when it won an international competition in 2011 for designing a new main entrance on
Exhibition Road. Levete also contributed to the design of the courtyard and gallery at London's
Victoria and Albert Museum, which featured a porcelain courtyard adorned with handmade ceramic tiles. This project marked the museum's most significant undertaking in over a century. AL_A has been involved in various notable projects, including the
Spencer Dock Bridge in Dublin (completed 2009),
MPavilion in Melbourne (2015), the
MAAT project in
Lisbon for the
EDP Foundation (completed 2017), the Central Embassy project in
Bangkok (completed 2017), 10 Hill's Place in
London (completed 2009) and the pop-up restaurant Tincan (completed 2014), The Dr. Lee Shau Kee Building and William Doo Undergraduate Centre for
Wadham College at the
University of Oxford (completed 2021), the design for
Maggie's cancer care charity building in
Southampton (completed 2021) and the media campus for News Corporation in East London. Internationally, she has completed three hospital buildings in
Cyprus, the redesign of the D'Ieteren Headquarters in Brussels, the design of a prototype fusion plant for clean energy firm General Fusion at Culham, and hotels and malls for the
Central Retail Corporation in
Bangkok. (2016) As a designer, Levete has created furniture pieces for Established and Sons as well as her architectural works. In 2025, Levete was among the UK-based signatories of a letter to the
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology secretary
Peter Kyle urging the government to reconsider its plans to allow
artificial intelligence models to be trained using copyrighted works without permission. Other prominent designers to sign the letter included
Tomoko Azumi,
David Chipperfield,
Sebastian Conran,
Tom Dixon, and
Jasper Morrison. ==Awards==