Romano Roland Paoletti, CBE was a British-Italian architect.
11 Facts About Roland Paoletti
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Roland Paoletti was best known for his work on the early stations for Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway, and for commissioning the award-winning designs of the stations of London Underground's Jubilee Line Extension.
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Roland Paoletti was described by the Architectural Review as "the Medici of London Transport".
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Roland Paoletti's father was treated as an enemy alien in the Second World War and the family had to move to Scotland.
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In 1942, Roland Paoletti was sent to Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school in County Kildare, Ireland.
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Roland Paoletti became an assistant to Pier Luigi Nervi on the building of a new British Embassy in Rome to a design by Spence.
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Roland Paoletti later moved to Hong Kong, working at Palmer and Turner before becoming an architect at the rapidly expanding Mass Transit Railway in 1975.
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Roland Paoletti became chief architect in the MTR's programme to build a new urban transport system.
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Over a period of twelve years, Roland Paoletti led a team that designed 37 stations on the Tsuen Wan, Kwun Tong and Island lines across Hong Kong completing the initial phase of the MTR.
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In 1990, Sir Wilfrid Newton, chairman of the MTR, left Hong Kong to become chairman of London Regional Transport and Roland Paoletti joined him in London, as commissioning architect for the new stations as part of the 10 miles Jubilee Line Extension.
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Roland Paoletti won first RIBA Client of the Year award in 1998, and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2000 New Year Honours for "services to Architecture".