Bennetts Associates Explained

Bennetts Associates Architects
Architects:	Denise Bennetts Rab Bennetts
Founders:	Denise Bennetts Rab Bennetts
Partners:	Julian Lipscombe Simon Erridge Peter Fisher^[1] James Nelmes
City:	London, Edinburgh and Manchester

Bennetts Associates is a British firm of architects. It was founded in 1987 by Denise Bennetts and her partner Rab Bennetts, who had previously worked for Ove Arup & Partners.^[2] The total shareholding of Bennetts Associates was transferred to an Employee Ownership Trust in 2016.^[3] ^[4]

National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/103) with Rab Bennetts in 2012-13 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.^[5]

Projects

Projects undertaken by the firm have included:

1994: PowerGen headquarters, Coventry^[2]
2002: Loch Lomond Gateway and Orientation Centre, Dumbartonshire
2003: Hampstead Theatre, Camden, London
2009: Elizabeth II Court, Hampshire County Council Offices, Winchester
2010: Mint Hotel, Tower of London
2010: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
2011: Mint Hotel, Amsterdam
2018: Bayes Centre at the University of Edinburgh^[6] ^[7]
2021: Crossrail suburban stations, West London^[8]

External links

Bennetts Associates Web Site

Notes and References

Web site: Bennetts Associates Limited - Officers (free information from Companies House). beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. en.
Book: Baird. George. The Architectural Expression of Environmental Control Systems. 2001. Spon Press. 0419244301. 40. 800255590. English.
Web site: Bennetts Associates. Employee Ownership Association (EOA). live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171121183943/http://employeeownership.co.uk:80/our-members/bennetts-associates/ . 21 November 2017 . 4 March 2020.
Web site: Shared ownership in practice. RIBA. 4 March 2020.
http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Architects-Lives/021M-C0467X0103XX-0001V0 National Life Stories, 'Bennetts, Rab (1 of 17) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 2013
News: Edinburgh's centre for data science and artificial intelligence opened by Princess Royal - FutureScot. 2018-10-23. FutureScot. 2018-11-17. en-GB.
News: Bayes Centre opens as part of Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal. GOV.UK. 2018-11-17. en.
Web site: Crossrail Surface Stations. live. 2022-01-16. Bennetts Associates. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20220116160639/https://www.bennettsassociates.com/projects/cities/crossrail-surface-stations/ . 16 January 2022 .