Ove Nyquist Arup CBE (1895 - 1988)

Born 16 Apr 1895 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom

Died 5 Feb 1988 at age 92 in London, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Ove Arup CBE is Notable.

He passed away in 1988. An obituary was published in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle on 6th February 1988^[2]:

Engineer Sir Ove dies at 92 SIR Ove Arup, the acclaimed Newcastle-born civil engineer responsible for structures as varied as the Byker Viaduct and the Sidney Opera House, has died aged 92. Sir Ove. an engineer of Danish/Norwegian parentage, built up an international consulting firm, with several offices around Britain and a dozen overseas. He specialised in reinforced concrete structures, but Sir Ove will also be remembered as someone who did much to bridge the gap between engineers and architects. He was involved with several Metro projects - three stations and a number of new bridges at South Shields and the Byker Viaduct, where the curving construction carries the Metro tracks over the 100 ft deep Ouseburn Valley. The viaduct won the Concrete Society's 1960 civil engineering category award. Other North-East projects included the footbridge over the River Wear by Durham Cathedral, built in 1967 and a wooden footbridge at Wylam in Northumberland. Made a CBE in 1953, Sir Ove was knighted in 1971. He was awarded the the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1966 and in 1973 the Gold Medal of the Society of Structural Engineers.

Sources

1. ↑ GRO online index of births, ARUP, OVE NYQUIST, mother's maiden surname NYQUIST. GRO Reference: 1895 J Quarter in NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE Volume 10B Page 147
2. ↑ Engineer Sir Ove dies at 92 Newcastle Evening Chronicle - Saturday 06 February 1988 page 5 column 1, accessed at https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ 25 April 2023

See also:

• Wikipedia: Ove Arup
• Wikidata: Item Q717683, en:Wikipedia
• https://www.arup.com/our-firm/ove-arup
• https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/engineering-the-world