Price & Myers
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| Limited Liability Partnership | |
| Industry | Construction |
| Founded | 1978 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Services | Structural and Civil Engineering Consulting, Sustainable Building Consulting |
| Website | www.pricemyers.com |
Price & Myers is a firm of Consulting Structural and Civil Engineers founded in 1978 by Sam Price and Robert Myers.[1] The practice is notable for the revival of the Royal Festival Hall with Allies and Morrison,[2] the restoration of Astley Castle with Witherford Watson Mann Architects, which won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2013,[3] and its involvement in Slipstream, the 78-metre long sculpture in Heathrow's Terminal 2 with artist Richard Wilson, curated by Futurecity.[4]
History
Price & Myers became a Limited Liability Partnership in 2003[5] and currently has offices in Nottingham, Oxford and London. The company has specialist Structures, Geometrics, Infrastructure and Sustainability teams. Over 23,000 projects have been completed by the practice since it was founded and they have been involved in various award winning projects including the Stirling Prize 2013 for the restoration of Astley Castle with architects Witherford Watson Mann,[6] the Stephen Lawrence Prize for Montpelier Community Nursery with AY Architects[7] and the Wood Awards Gold Award and Structural Award for Bishop Edward King Chapel with Niall McLaughlin Architects, which also won Civic Trust Awards and was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize 2013.[8][9][10]
Notable Projects
- Akerman Health Centre with architects Henley Halebrown Rorrison[11]
- Astley Castle with architects Witherford Watson Mann[12]
- Bishop Edward King Chapel with Niall McLaughlin Architects[13]
- Brick House with Caruso St John Architects[14]
- Brockholes Visitor Centre with Adam Khan Architects[15]
- Chichester Festival Theatre refurbishment with Haworth Tompkins Architects [16]
- Churchill War Rooms entrance with Clash Architects[17]
- Colyer-Fergusson Music Building, University of Kent with Tim Ronalds Architects [18]
- Cultural Centre on Southend Pier with White Arkitekter and Sprunt[19]
- Curtain Road with Duggan Morris Architects[20]
- Dryden Street for Donmar Warehouse with Haworth Tompkins Architects[21]
- Edmund de Waal's new studio and gallery with DSDHA[22]
- Greenwich Peninsula redevelopment for developer Knight Dragon
- Iroko Housing, London with Haworth Tompkins Architects [23]
- London Library refurbishment with Haworth Tompkins Architects[24]
- Meads Reach footbridge with Niall McLaughlin Architects[25]
- Millennium Bridge (Dublin) with Howley Harrington Architects[26]
- Montpelier Community Nursery with AY Architects[27]
- Moorfields Eye Hospital’s International Children’s Eye Centre with Penoyre & Prasad [28]
- Multiple works at Pembroke College, Oxford all with BGS Architects, including the Bridging Centuries footbridge[29]
- North Wall, St Edward's School, Oxford with Haworth Tompkins [30]
- Royal Court Theatre, London with Haworth Tompkins [31]
- Royal Festival Hall Revival with architects Allies and Morrison[32]
- Sevenoaks School Performing Arts Centre with Tim Ronalds Architects[33]
- Slipstream with artist Richard Wilson[34]
- Tree House with 6a Architects[35]
- University Campus fit-out for Hult International Business School with Sergison Bates Architects
Artwork
Over the years Price & Myers' Geometrics team have worked with artists towards the structural integrity of large-scale works. Noteworthy instances include:
- Gravity in Camden by Aleksandra Mir
- Life as a Circus in Blackpool by Peter Blake
- Line of Control in Tate Britain with Subodh Gupta
- Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 in Trafalgar Square by Elmgreen and Dragset
- Rise in Belfast by Wolfgang Buttress
- Sky Mirror in Nottingham with Anish Kapoor
- The Sun in Berkeley Square by Dale Chihuly
- Turning the Place Over in Liverpool by Richard Wilson
References
- ↑ "Structural Awards 2013: Meet our judges". IStructE. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
- ↑ "Royal Festival Hall Refurbishment". The Architect's Journal. 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- ↑ "Astley Castle by Witherford Watson Mann". bd online. 6 June 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
- ↑ "New London Quarterly: The quarter". Nick McKeogh. June 2014. p. 6.
- ↑ "The Architects’ Journal, Volume 217". Architectural Press. 2003. p. 48.
- ↑ "2013 RIBA Stirling Prize winner – Astley Castle, Warwickshire". RIBA. 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ↑ "Stephen Lawrence Prize 2013". RIBA. 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ↑ "Winners 2013". The Wood Awards. 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ↑ "Winners - Special Award". 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ↑ "RIBA Stirling shortlist 2013 – Bishop Edward King Chapel". RIBA. 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ↑ "Akerman". Civic Trust Awards. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- ↑ Buxton, Pamela (Sep 2013). "How they kept the keep". The RIBA Journal. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ↑ Salter, Peter (18 July 2013). "Ripon Chapel, Oxfordshire by Niall McLaughlin Architects". The Architect Journal. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ↑ "MONASTIC MINIMALISM". brick.org.uk. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ↑ Kennett, Stephen (13 August 2010). "Brockholes floating visitor centre: Tread lightly". Building. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ↑ "Haworth Tompkins overhauls Powell & Moya's brutalist Chichester theatre". dezeen. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- ↑ "Churchill War Rooms entrance". The Architect's Journal. 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- ↑ "Wood Awards 2013: Commercial & Public Access, Winner". RIBA Journal. 1 December 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- ↑ "Southend Pier Cultural Centre". The Architects Journal. 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ↑ "Curtain Road". The Architect's Journal. 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- ↑ "Haworth Tompkins transforms an old brick building for the Donmar Warehouse". dezeenl. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ↑ "DSDHA creates light-filled warehouse studio and gallery for Edmund de Waal". dezeen. 31 July 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- ↑ "To coin a phrase". Building Design. 2003. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ↑ Dewe, Michael(2012). Renewing our Libraries: Case Studies in Re-planning and Refurbishment, p. 131. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
- ↑ Spring, Martin (23 July 2010). "Meads Reach footbridge, Bristol". Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- ↑ Casey, Christine (2005). Dublin: The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park, p. 694. Yale University Press.
- ↑ "Montpelier Community Nursery by AY Architects". Dezeen. 1 July 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ↑ "Watch this space". Building Design. 12 January 2007. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- ↑ "Small footbridge wins a major award". The Oxford Times. 21 November 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- ↑ "Haworth Tompkins’ school theatre is a scene stealer". Building Design. 3 August 2007. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ↑ "Right Royal restoration". Architect’s Journal. 26 June 2003. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ↑ Bizley, Graham(2010). Architecture in Detail II, p. 197. Routledge.
- ↑ "Sevenoaks Performing Arts Centre". The Architects' Journal. 2010. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ↑ "Richard Wilson sculpture to dominate Heathrow's Terminal 2". BBC News. 21 May 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ↑ "Tree House by 6a Architects". dezeen. 13 October 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2014.