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150 Holborn, Perkins&Will’s new London home<\/p>\n\t
Source:Timothy Soar<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018It becomes embedded in everything that we do from the outset,\u2019 explains senior associate Christopher Christophi, who says the \u2018clear and \u2018consistent\u2019 system is particularly helpful when collaborating with the US offices.<\/p>\n
Perkins&Will employs 138 permanent architectural staff in the UK (out of a global total of 1,924), a number which Wright says has remained \u2018more or less static\u2019 over the past year. Of those employees, 37 per cent are from diverse ethnic backgrounds and 48 per cent are female, putting the practice leaps ahead on diversity and inclusion.<\/p>\n
The practice\u2019s Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) council underpins its action here, driven by a belief that \u2018inclusion spurs creativity, and innovation,\u2019 explains Parisa Kanabar, a recently-qualified architect at the firm.<\/p>\n
Project work boomed in 2023, despite major challenges such as material cost inflation and an \u2018exodus\u2019 of staff back to EU countries post-Brexit.<\/p>\n
Perkins&Will\u2019s high-profile completions included UCL CAVE, a built environments testing facility for University College London, which can provide test conditions at temperatures varying between \u20135 and +40 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n
The firm\u2019s schedule continues to be packed into 2024, with current work on two Dublin-based office projects for TikTok, a new Unilever HQ in Kingston upon Thames, and a high-end fit out for a finance company in Mayfair.<\/p>\n
In the pipeline, it has two new hospital projects lined up under the New Hospital Programme, a stream of higher education work with at least one high-profile project Wright \u2018believes\u2019 is in the bag, and a \u2018growing\u2019 volume of work in science and healthcare, thanks to its in-house specialists with \u2018deep expertise\u2019 in those sectors.<\/p>\n
Looking ahead, the managing director\u2019s dream for Perkins&Will is to develop the same \u2018extraordinary\u2019 brand it boasts in the States, encompassing the practice\u2019s focus on social infrastructure and multidisciplinary services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The relocation points to a bold new era for the UK arm of the global practice, which was founded in Chicago in 1935 before spreading its wings across the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and the UK. Perkins&Will designed 150 Holborn to be the UK HQ of Sidara Collaborative, and shares the building with other design …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138919,"featured_media":745816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"ep_exclude_from_search":false},"categories":[681],"tags":[101045,2449],"yoast_head":"\n