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List Of British Architecture Firms
This list of British architecture firms includes notable architecture practices (or companies known for their architectural output) founded and/or headquartered in the United Kingdom. A–M * ABK, founded 1961 * AL_A, founded 2009 *Allies and Morrison, founded 1984 *Archigram, architectural collective active c. 1962–1964 * Architects' Co-Partnership founded 1939 * Arup, founded 1946 * Ash Sakula Architects, founded 1996 *Assael Architecture, founded 1994 *Bennetts Associates, founded 1987 * Benoy, founded 1947 * Benson & Forsyth * H. E. and A. Bown, founded between 1868 and 1870 *Bradshaw Gass & Hope, founded 1862 * Brian Ring, Howard & Partners, founded 1958 *Broadway Malyan, founded 1956 *Building Design Partnership (BDP), founded 1964 * Buro Happold, founded 1976 *Caruso St John, founded 1990 * Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, founded 1952 * Chapman Taylor Architects, founded 1959 *EPR Architects, founded 1947 *FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste) established 1990s *Farrells, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Architecture Firm
In the United States, an architectural firm or architecture firm is a business that employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture; while in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and other countries, an architectural firm is a company that offers architectural services. History Architects (or master builders) have existed since early in recorded history. The earliest recorded architects include Imhotep (c. 2600 BCE) and Senemut (c. 1470 BCE). No writings exist to describe how these architects performed their work. However, as nobles it is reasonable to assume they had staffs of assistants and retainers to help refine and implement their work. The oldest surviving book on architecture, ''De architectura'' by the Roman architect Vitruvius describes the design and construction of towns, buildings, clocks, and machines, but provides no information about the organisation of the architect's assistants. It is generally accepted that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Malyan
Broadway Malyan is a global architecture, urbanism and design practice. It was established in 1958 by architects Cyril Broadway anJohn Malyan Among its incorporated businesses globally, it owns or is closely associated with the English incorporated private limited company by shares, companies Broadway Malyan International Limited, Broadway Malyan Limited and Broadway Malyan Holdings Limited. Offices Broadway Malyan's offices are in London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Lisbon (Portugal), Warsaw (Poland), Abu Dhabi (UAE), Singapore, Shanghai (China), Mumbai (India), Dubai (UAE), Manchester (UK) and Birmingham (UK). Incorporated businesses Originally a partnership, itself or its partners have created a set of trading and holding England and Wales, English company enterprises in 1989, 1998 and 2005. These are respectively Broadway Malyan International Limited, Broadway Malyan Limited and Broadway Malyan Holdings Limited. Broadway Malyan is an employee owned practice. Projects Retail *T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Howells
Glenn Paul Howells (born 15 July 1961) is a British architect and a director and founder of Glenn Howells Architects. Early life Howells was born in Stourbridge, England and educated in Plymouth. Practice His practice, Glenn Howells Architects (GHA), has offices in Birmingham and London. Howells founded his practice in London in 1990 but later moved the main office to Birmingham in 1992. GHA now employs 150 people in its Birmingham and London studios and works across the UK in many sectors including masterplanning, residential, offices, education, retail, health, hotel and leisure. Early projects included the award-winning Custard Factory, an affordable creative business space in Birmingham for developer Bennie Gray and a series of arts projects including the Market Place Theatre in Armagh, Northern Ireland (which won a RIBA regional award) and the Courtyard Theatre in Hereford. The practice subsequently expanded into residential and mixed-use regeneration schemes with a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia was a Scottish architectural firm famous for their application of modernism in churches and universities, as well as at St Peter's Seminary in Cardross. Though founded in 1927, they are best known for their work in the post-war period. The firm was wound up in 1987. In 2007, the firm was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at The Lighthouse, Glasgow. History of the practice Origins The Scottish architect James Salmon (1805–1888) established a practice in Glasgow in 1830. John Gaff Gillespie (1870–1926) was hired in 1891, when the practice was known as James Salmon & Son, and was run by the son, William Forrest Salmon. The practice name was changed in 1903 to Salmon & Son & Gillespie, with James Salmon (1873–1924), grandson of the founder, and John Gaff Gillespie as partners. William Alexander Kidd (1879–1928) joined the firm in 1898, becoming a partner, with Gillespie, in 1918 (James Salmon had left the firm in 1913). Kidd becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Kaplický
Jan Kaplický (; ; 18 April 1937 – 14 January 2009) was a Neofuturistic Czech architect who spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom. He was the leading architect behind the innovative design office, Future Systems. He was best known for the neofuturistic Selfridges Building in Birmingham, England, and the Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground in London. Childhood and early life Jan Kaplický, the only child of a sculptor and a botanical illustrator, was born on 18 April 1937 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and grew up in a suburb of Prague called Ořechovka. Between 1956 and 1962 he studied at the College of Applied Arts and Architecture and Design (VSUP) in Prague, receiving a Diploma in Architecture. He worked in private practice in Czechoslovakia between 1964 and 1968. In the wake of the Prague Spring, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, he escaped to London in September 1968 with fellow architect Jaroslav Vokoun carrying only US$100 and a few pairs of so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future Systems
Future Systems was a London-based architectural and design practice, formerly headed by Directors Jan Kaplický and Amanda Levete. Future Systems was founded by Kaplický and David Nixon after working with Denys Lasdun, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, and Richard Rogers in 1979. The work of Future Systems can be classified within the British high-tech architects as either bionic architecture or amorphous, organic shapes sometimes referred to as " blobitecture". "Compared to his peers, Kaplicky was the avant-garde incarnate, relentlessly pursuing the new new thing, refusing to settle into some predictable, and comfortable, architectural niche." Practice Future Systems proposals adapted construction methods from other professions, including (most commonly) the curved monocoque shell structures found in aircraft design, car design and boat building. In the 1990s the company moved from theoretical projects to fee-paying work with projects such as the "spacecraft-like" Media Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners is a British architectural, engineering, and integrated design practice founded in 1967 as Foster Associates by Norman Foster. It is the largest architectural firm in the UK with over 1,500 employees in 13 studios worldwide. History Established by Norman Foster as Foster Associates in 1967 shortly after leaving Team 4, the firm was renamed Sir Norman Foster and Partners Ltd in 1992 and shortened to Foster & Partners Ltd in 1999 to more accurately reflect the influence of the other lead architects. In 2007, the private equity company 3i took a stake in the practice. This was bought back by the practice in June 2014 to become wholly owned by the 140 partners. In October 2021, Foster + Partners was bought by a Canadian private investment firm Hennick & Company for an undisclosed sum, making it the single biggest shareholder of the practice. Foster will retain a controlling interest. Major projects Major projects, by year of completion and ordered by type, are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farrells
Farrells is an architecture and urban design firm founded by British architect-planner Terry Farrell with offices in London, Manchester, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. The firm has won numerous awards for their characteristic mixed-use schemes, transit-oriented development, contextual urban placemaking, and cultural buildings. Origins Terry Farrell began his professional career in 1961 at the architecture department of the London County Council, where he met fellow staff architect Nicholas Grimshaw. The two became close friends, and in 1965 they founded the Farrell/Grimshaw Partnership, sharing their office for some time with Archigram. The firm built a reputation in private sector urban regeneration, renovating old houses and factories to accommodate modern uses. They were also part of a "new wave" of British firms experimenting with high-tech architecture. During this period Farrell/Grimshaw produced several pioneering works of high-tech, flexible buildings such as the 125 Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fashion Architecture Taste
Fashion Architecture Taste or FAT is an art and architecture collaborative first established in the 1990s in London, England. Their work falls broadly under the postmodern category with pop-culture influences.Pearman, Hugh (15 January 2006"Your taste or mine?"''The Sunday Times''. Retrieved 3 February 2009. The group has been described as "very young" and "very controversial" and have a cult following. Over recent years they have developed a large body of critically acclaimed built work in the UK and abroad. In December 2013, the group announced a planned breakup.Merrick, Jay 17 December 2013"FATs all folks; architecture's biggest jokers sign off in style"''The Independent'' History The group formed in London in the 1990s, and challenged the "orthodoxy of Modernist good taste", first with experimentalism in their Anti-Oedipal House (1993) that separated children and parents, and then at the 1995 Venice Biennale by distributing art from vending machines. They did a similar eff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EPR Architects
EPR Architects is a London-based architectural practice that originally started business under the names of its founders Elsom Pack & Roberts. It is known for commercial, residential and hotel projects. Cecil Elsom CBE (17 January 1912 – 3 April 2006) founded the practice in London in 1947 with William Pack and Alan Roberts. According to Elsom's obituary in ''The Times'': " e was anArchitect who appreciated classical design and restoration but also provided London with admirable postwar buildings." Projects such as the international style Eastbourne Terrace office scheme became the trademark style in the practice's early years. The practice changed its name to EPR Partnership in the eighties, and then EPR Architects in 1988. The company is based in Millbank, London, previously being based in Pimlico. The practice was listed in AJ100 for 2013 at position 17 out of the top 100 architectural practices. The company sponsors the New London Architecture centre and UK Green Buildi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapman Taylor
Chapman Taylor is a global practice of award-winning architects, masterplanners and interior designers, based in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The practice has completed over 3,000 projects and won over 300 design awards over its history, including the UK Queen's Award. It specialises in Residential, Retail, Leisure, Hospitality, Transportation and Workplace design, and the combination of these uses into large-scale mixed-use environments. History The practice was established in the United Kingdom in 1959 and its first project was the design and delivery of New Scotland Yard which became the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police. During the 1970s Chapman Taylor was part of the dramatic expansion of the retail sector in the UK. In the 1980’s the practice was involved in several major London masterplanning schemes, including Millbank Estate, for the Crown Estate Commissioners, a 27-acre Central London site that was planned and built over an 18-year period and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamberlin, Powell And Bon
Chamberlin, Powell and Bon was a British firm of architects whose work involved designing the Barbican Estate. They are considered one of the most important modernist architectural firms in post-war England. Formation The practice was founded in 1952 by Geoffry Powell (1920–1999), Peter "Joe" Chamberlin (1919–1978) and Christoph Bon (1921–1999), following Powell's win in the 1951 architectural competition for the Golden Lane Estate. The three founding partners taught at Kingston Polytechnic (now Kingston University School of Architecture) when they each entered the design competition with the agreement that should any of them win they would form a partnership with the other two to deliver the project. The Golden Lane Estate is sometimes referred to as the apprentice piece of the practice and is important for its planned landscape which 'straddles the boundary between the picturesque and the formal'. Charles Greenberg became an additional partner of the practice in 1960 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
