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In 2010 his Nelson's Ship in a Bottle won a commission to occupy Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth.

But now desperate to "do his bit" he joined the RAF and won a commission in the intelligence branch.

Together with architects Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Ando Tadao, Nouvel won a commission to design a building for the cultural district of Abu Dhabi, lying just offshore.

When, in 1958, Dowson won a commission to design new buildings for Somerville College, Oxford, Arup felt that he might want to go it alone.

A year later, MVRDV took social engineering to a new level when it won a commission to represent Holland in Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany.

ADP Architects, which has an office in Delhi, as well as several in Britain, has won a commission to lead a £23m regeneration of Spanish City.

Architect Stanford White helped her win a commission to design the interior of the Colony Club, New York's first social club for women.

It's a worthy winner for the BP Award". As well as the prize, Mr Marsh may also win a commission to produce a portrait for the gallery's permanent collection.

He knew nothing of contemporary art, he said, until he left high school for Vienna, making his way as a traditional portrait painter and doing well enough to win a commission from the Italian ambassador to Austria.

He proved himself by winning a commission as an officer leading the Army's "bravest of the brave", the Gurkhas, and was to crown a crowded life by making the world gasp with a parachute jump into the London Olympic Stadium on 27 July 2012.

She immediately knew she should bring the evidence to a wider public, yet it took three years for the film-maker to win a commission from Channel 4 and many more to make three harrowing documentaries, culminating in The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs, which will air on Channel 4 this Thursday.