GB. England.Nigel Coates (b.1949 UK) Architect, interior designer, author, and furniture designer. His designs include the British Pavilion at Expo '98 in Lisbon, the Body Zone at London's Millennium Dome, and the ill-fated National Centre for Popular Music in Sheffield, which opened in 1999 and closed one year later. He also designed Jigsaw Store, Knightsbridge, London, the Cool Britannica temporary exhibition space on Horse Guards Parade, London, and the interiors of several theme bars and restaurants in Japan. Other items of Coates' work are displayed in museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum, MOMA, FRAC and the Vitra Design Museum. He first attracted the attention of the international architecture world in 1984 with the publication of NATO (Narrative Architecture Today) magazine, and was New Labour’s architect of choice in the late 1990s. Since 1995 he has been Professor and Head of Department in the School of Architecture & Design Department of Architecture at the Royal College of Art.