MJP Architects

MJP Architects

Ruskin Library, Lancaster University
Practice information
Key architects

Sir Richard MacCormac - Founder and Consultant
Jeremy Estop - Managing Director and Director for Cultural Buildings, Workplaces and Student Accommodation
Liz Pride - Company Secretary and Director for Education and Transport

Reza Schuster - Director and Head of Housing
Founded 1972
Work
Buildings British Embassy Bangkok[1]
Coventry Phoenix Initiative[2]
Wellcome Wing of Science Museum
Ruskin Library, Lancaster University
Cable & Wireless Training College
Kendrew Quadrangle, St John's College, Oxford[3]
Maggie's Centre, Cheltenham[4]
Awards English Partnerships Award for Partnership in Regeneration (2006)
Best Mixed Use Regeneration Project (2004)
RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist (2004)
Millennium Building of the Year (2000)
RFAC/Sunday Times Building of the Year (1994)

MJP Architects is a private British architectural practice based in Spitalfields London established in 1972 by Sir Richard MacCormac. The practice officially changed its name from MacCormac Jamieson Prichard to MJP Architects in June 2008.[5]

MJP Architects have worked in a variety of sectors from early social housing schemes in Milton Keynes and several education projects at Oxford and Cambridge universities through to the training centre for Cable and Wireless in Coventry, the Wellcome Wing of the Science Museum in London[6], the Ruskin Library at the University of Lancaster[7], the Southwark underground station for the Jubilee Line Extension[8] and the Coventry Phoenix Initiative[2]. Recent projects include the Kendrew Quadrangle for St Johns College, Oxford[3]; Maggie's Centre Cheltenham[4]; new staff accommodation and staff facilities for the British Embassy in Bangkok[1] and university masterplans at Cambridge, Warwick, Birmingham and UCL.

Since October 2007, MJP Architects has been owned and ultimately controlled by its employees, through an Employee Benefit Trust.[9]

On 6 October 2010 a monograph on the practice's work was published. Entitled 'Building Ideas - MJP Architects' - the book illustrates over 150 projects by the practice. It was edited by Ian Latham with texts by Nicola Jackson and published by Right Angle Publishing. The monograph includes an anthology of over 30 essays by Richard MacCormac; prefaces by Richard Murphy, Colin Stansfield Smith, Richard Burdett and Francis Duffy; and chapter introductory essays by Bryan Lawson, Robert Harbison, Richard Sennett, Margaret Richardson, Peter Davey and Richard Cork.[10] 'Building Ideas - MJP Architects' was reviewed by Alan Powers in the Architects' Journal 2nd December 2012.[11]

In the RIBA 2011 Awards, MJP Architects won two regional awards : Kendrew Quadrangle St John's College Oxford (RIBA South) and Maggie's Centre Cheltenham (RIBA Wessex) - both MJP projects then went forward to be considered for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2011.[12]

Contents

Selected works

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b Rory Olcayto (2009-04-09). "British Bangkok". Architects' Journal. http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/public-service/british-embassy-bangkok-by-mjp-architects/5201290.article. Retrieved 2009-08-18. 
  2. ^ a b "Phoenix : Architecture/Art/Regeneration". Black Dog Publishing. 2004. http://blackdogonline.com/all-books/phoenix.html. Retrieved 2009-08-27. 
  3. ^ a b Edward Jones (2010-11-01). "MJP Architects' Kendrew Quad at St John's College, Oxford". Architecture Today. http://www.architecturetoday.co.uk/?p=12011. 
  4. ^ a b Felix Mara (2010-12-02). "Architectural calm". Architects' Journal. http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1q51r/AJ2ndDecember2010/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yudu.com%2Fitem%2Fdetails%2F255937%2FAJ. Retrieved 2010-12-02. 
  5. ^ "About MJP Architects". MJP Architects. http://www.mjparchitects.co.uk/about.php. Retrieved 2009-08-18. 
  6. ^ Jonathan Glancey (1996-02-26). "All it's cranked up to be". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/all-its-cranked-up-to-be-1321168.html. Retrieved 2009-08-18. 
  7. ^ Hugh Pearman (1998-05-10). "Small but perfectly formed". The Sunday Times. http://www.hughpearman.com/articles/cwa18.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-18. 
  8. ^ Kenneth Powell (2000-02). "Modern movement: London's Jubilee Line Extension". Architecture Today. http://www.architecturetoday.co.uk/Articles/view.php?id=22120. Retrieved 2009-08-18. 
  9. ^ "About MJP Architects". MJP Architects. http://www.mjparchitects.co.uk/index.php?show=about. Retrieved 2008-03-12. 
  10. ^ "monograph". MJP Architects. http://www.mjparchitects.co.uk/monograph.php. Retrieved 2010-09-10. 
  11. ^ Alan Powers (2010-12-02). "MacCormac: a logical narrative". Architects' Journal. http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1q51r/AJ2ndDecember2010/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yudu.com%2Fitem%2Fdetails%2F255937%2FAJ. Retrieved 2010-12-02. 
  12. ^ "RIBAAwards2011". MJP Architects. http://www.mjparchitects.co.uk/news-RIBA-Awards2011.php. Retrieved 2011-06-23. 
  13. ^ "Breathing - a new sculpture for Broadcasting House". BBC Press Office. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/06_june/16/breathing.shtml. Retrieved 2008-03-27. 

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