Alsop & Partners is a leading European architectural, urban planning and multimedia practice based in London, with additional offices in Toronto, Singapore and Shanghai. The studio is led by Professor William Alsop OBE RA with a team of directors and a cosmopolitan staff of around 70, including architects, urban planners, multi media artists, modellers, graphic designers, filmmakers and fine artists.

Alsop is committed to architecture of delight and enjoyment, reached through a process that involves the building users, the client and the local community. Community involvement is seen as a vital ingredient in the design process. In addition Alsop’s buildings are known for their bold and often dramatic incorporation of art. Close collaboration with artists is often reinforced by an innovative use of new materials and a bold use of colour.

Over the last twenty years the award-winning practice has built extensively across Europe and in Russia and established an international reputation for buildings that bring merit to their location and joy to their users. The Practice’s significant experience in regeneration projects includes the £97m Regional Government Headquarters in Marseilles; The Cardiff Bay Visitors’ Centre; North Greenwich Tube Station; Peckham library (named Building of the Year as winner of the RIBA’s Stirling Prize 2000) and the 18-storey Colorium Tower on the Dusseldorf waterfront.

The last two years has seen a tremendous expansion in the spread and type of commissions awarded to Alsop throughout the UK and overseas. In the UK the Practice has become increasingly involved in complex urban design and “visioning” studies. In London, as well as a new campus building for Goldsmiths, the company has designed an innovative medical school for Queen Mary College in Whitechapel. In Holland where Alsop has been working for several years, there is a mixed use development in Mauritsweg currently in design, a housing development in Groningen in development and, a new urban entertainment centre in the Polder city of Almere which is part of a multi million pound development project that was recently completed.

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