NEWS MERGER
Penoyre & Prasad enter merger with Perkins and Will
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Penoyre & Prasad, the architecture practice behind the Sibson Building for the University of Kent and University College London’s Project Oriel, has merged with the London studio of global architecture firm Perkins and Will. Coming weeks after a team of architects including Perkins and
Will were awarded first place ahead of hundreds of global architects in a blind competition to design the new European Commission headquarters in Brussels, the merger will allow both practices to draw on the expertise of more than 200 London staff working across the civic, interior, commercial, residential, education, and healthcare sectors. For Penoyre & Prasad, the merger will offer the practice a
significant global platform on which to build, drawing on Perkins and Will’s capacity in the realms of research and sustainability “as Britain aims to rise to the challenges posed by the climate emergency,” commented the firms. Penoyre & Prasad is currently on various UK frameworks,
including University College London, NHS Shared Business Services, Notting Hill Genesis, and the recently won Wolfson College masterplan at the University of Oxford. The additional resources and global expertise of Perkins and Will are “set to strengthen Penoyre & Prasad’s offering,” added the firms. The move comes as the London studio of Perkins and Will seeks
to bolster its global platform and strengthen its client offering in the UK and wider European region, providing design, architecture, masterplanning and research services that span the entire built environment. Perkins and Will’s origins are in North America, where the
practice enjoyed considerable growth due to its expansion within the health and education sectors. In 1935, the firm pioneered human-centred educational design in Chicago, Illinois, creating open classrooms that supported activity-based learning and provided access to the outdoors, “challenging the status quo,” said the firm. Now, the London studio of Perkins and Will believes that by
joining forces with Penoyre & Prasad, they will be able to “cement themselves as industry leaders in the health and education sectors once more,” which are “poised for considerable investment in the UK.” Penoyre & Prasad partner, Ian Goodfellow, said he believes “there
is significant opportunity to blend this expertise with the range of services Perkins and Will provides across architecture.”
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