Architecture firm Penoyre & Prasad has joined global design firm Perkins and Will. The merger, which grew out of the firms’ common environmental and social concerns, goals, and design philosophies, benefits both practices while enhancing design services for clients.
Penoyre & Prasad’s merger with Perkins and Will establishes a stronger architectural presence in London and the region, says Steven Charlton, managing director of the Perkins and Will London studio. Now a combined entity, the London practice will be able to design and deliver commercial and institutional projects—and do it across all typologies, including interiors.
Projects led by the London studio of Perkins and Will include The Stage, a mixed-use development in Shoreditch on and around the site of discovered remains of Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre; 150 Holborn, a commercial office building in burgeoning “midtown” London; a laboratory and office complex in Oxford Science Park, in Oxford; and One Station Square, a mixed-use office and retail building with a public park on the campus of CB1 in Cambridge.
Projects led by Penoyre & Prasad include Oriel for Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology in St. Pancras; Pearl, the transport laboratory for University College London in Dagenham; the Kantor Centre of Excellence for the Anna Freud Centre and The Family School near King’s Cross; the Sibson Building at the University of Kent in Canterbury; and Bobby Moore Academy all-through school in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Penoyre & Prasad now joins European design companies Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Portland Design, and Pierre-Yves Rochon (PYR) on the Perkins and Will global platform. It will operate as a studio within the London studio of Perkins and Will, retaining its brand for a few years during a period of integration. All 35 staff members will co-locate with Perkins and Will in the Whitechapel Building before the end of the year. With a total of 190 employees, the London studio of Perkins and Will is now the firm’s third-largest studio in the world.
