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]

Selected works

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  St Johns College Oxford,Garden Quadrangle

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  Southwark Station, Jubilee Line Extension

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  Coventry Phoenix Initiative

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  Wellcome Wing, Science Museum

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  Portsmouth Boathouse 6

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  Lancaster University Library

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  Warwick Court, Paternoster Square

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  University of Warwick Development Plan

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  University of Cambridge, West Cambridge Masterplan

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  Welcome Wolfson Building / Dana Centre, Science Museum

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  BBC Broadcasting House (Phase 1)

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  Jaume Plensa installation 'Breathing' at BBC Broadcasting House^[13]

Awards

• 2011 RIBA Awards (RIBA South) : Kendrew Quadrangle St John's College Oxford
• 2011 RIBA Awards (RIBA Wessex) : Maggie's Centre Cheltenham
• 2006 English Partnerships Award for Partnership in Regeneration : Coventry Phoenix Initiative
• 2004 Best Mixed Use Regeneration Project : Coventry Phoenix Initiative
• 2004 RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist : Coventry Phoenix Initiative
• 2000 Millennium Building of the Year : Southwark Station, Jubilee Line Extension
• 1994 RFAC/Sunday Times Building of the Year : Cable & Wireless Technical College

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. ^{[dead link]}
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. 

External links

• MJP Architects practice website