MJP Architects

Last updated
MJP Architects
Practice information
Key architects
  • Jeremy Estop
  • Liz Pride
  • Reza Schuster
  • Michael Ritchie
  • Albert Murdoch
Founders
Founded1972
Dissolved2022
Location London, United Kingdom

MJP Architects was an employee-owned British architectural practice established in 1972 by Sir Richard MacCormac, and based in Spitalfields, London. The practice officially changed its name from MacCormac Jamieson Prichard to MJP Architects in June 2008. [1]

Contents

From October 2007, MJP Architects was owned and ultimately controlled by its employees, through an Employee Benefit Trust. [2]

MJP Architects 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, London, [3] the Ruskin Library at the University of Lancaster, [4] the Southwark tube station for the Jubilee Line Extension, [5] and the Coventry Phoenix Initiative. [6]

Other projects included the Kendrew Quadrangle for St John's College, Oxford, [7] Maggie's Centre in Cheltenham; [8] new staff accommodation and staff facilities for the British Embassy in Bangkok; [9] and university masterplans at Cambridge, Warwick, Birmingham and UCL.

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 2 December 2010. [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). [12] In the 2012 Civic Trust Awards (announced 2 March 2012), MJP Architects won a Civic Trust Award for Kendrew Quadrangle St John's College Oxford and a commendation for Maggie's Centre Cheltenham. [13]

The firm went into liquidation in December 2022 after struggling to recover from the Covid Pandemic. [14]

References

  1. ↑ "About MJP Architects". MJP Architects. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
  2. ↑ "About MJP Architects". MJP Architects. Retrieved 12 March 2008.
  3. ↑ Jonathan Glancey (26 February 1996). "All it's cranked up to be". The Independent. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
  4. ↑ Hugh Pearman (10 May 1998). "Small but perfectly formed". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 14 July 2009. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
  5. ↑ Kenneth Powell (February 2000). "Modern movement: London's Jubilee Line Extension". Architecture Today. Retrieved 18 August 2009.[ dead link ]
  6. ↑ "Phoenix : Architecture/Art/Regeneration". Black Dog Publishing. 2004. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
  7. ↑ Edward Jones (1 November 2010). "MJP Architects' Kendrew Quad at St John's College, Oxford". Architecture Today. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  8. ↑ Felix Mara (2 December 2010). "Architectural calm". Architects' Journal. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
  9. ↑ Rory Olcayto (9 April 2009). "British Bangkok". Architects' Journal. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
  10. ↑ "monograph". MJP Architects. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
  11. ↑ Alan Powers (2 December 2010). "MacCormac: a logical narrative". Architects' Journal. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
  12. ↑ "RIBAAwards2011". MJP Architects. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
  13. ↑ "CivicTrustAwards2012". Civic Trust. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  14. ↑ "MJP Architects placed into liquidation after string of stalled jobs". 19 January 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.