MJP Architects is an employee-owned British

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established in 1972 by Sir

Richard MacCormac Sir Richard Cornelius MacCormac CBE, PPRIBA, FRSA, RA (3 September 1938 – 26 July 2014), was a modernist English architect and the founder of MJP Architects. Early life and background Richard Cornelius MacCormac was born in Marylebone, ...

, and based in

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. The practice officially changed its name from MacCormac Jamieson Prichard to MJP Architects in June 2008. Since October 2007, MJP Architects has been owned and ultimately controlled by its employees, through an

Employee Benefit Trust An employee trust is a trust for the benefit of employees. The employees that an employee trust benefits are usually defined by reference to employment by a particular company (or group of companies). In addition to employees, the beneficiaries m ...

. 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

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, the

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at the

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, the

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for the

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, and the Coventry Phoenix Initiative. Recent projects include the Kendrew Quadrangle for

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in Cheltenham; new staff accommodation and staff facilities for the British Embassy in

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; 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. 'Building Ideas - MJP Architects' was reviewed by Alan Powers in the Architects' Journal 2 December 2010. 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). 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.

Gallery

File:Science_Museum_London_1110591_nevit.jpg, The Wellcome Wing at the Science Museum, London File:DanaCentreQueensgate-02.jpg, Dana Centre at the Wellcome Wolfson Building at The Science Museum London File:FriendshipHouseBelvedere-01.jpg, Friendship House, Belvedere Place, London SE1 File:WestCambridge-01.jpg, South Residences at West Cambridge, University of Cambridge File:Southwark_tube_concourse.jpg, Southwark Underground Station, London SE1

References

External links

MJP Architects practice website
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