Bennetts Associates Architects | |
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Key architects | Denise Bennetts Rab Bennetts |
Partners | Julian Lipscombe Simon Erridge Peter Fisher [1] James Nelmes |
Founders | Denise Bennetts Rab Bennetts |
Founded | 1987 |
Location | London, Edinburgh and Manchester |
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Bennetts Associates is a British firm of architects. It was founded in 1987 by Denise Bennetts and her partner Rab Bennetts, who had previously worked for Ove Arup & Partners. [2] The total shareholding of Bennetts Associates was transferred to an Employee Ownership Trust in 2016. [3] [4]
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/103) with Rab Bennetts in 2012-13 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library. [5]
Projects undertaken by the firm have included:
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