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{{Infobox architectural practice | name = PLP Architecture | image = | caption = | architect = Lee Polisano | partners = Jon Neville-Jones, Mark Kelly,Kevin Flanagan, Alessandra Luzzatto, Andrei Martin, Rob Peebless, Bernard Storch | city = London | coordinates = | founded = 2009 | dissolved = | awards = | significant_buildings = | significant_projects = 22 Bishopsgate,[[ | significant_design = | website = www.plparchitecture.com }}


PLP Architecture is an architecture firm based in London that was founded by Lee Polisano, David Leventhal, Fred Pillbrow, Karen Cook, and Ron Bakker in 2009 following their departure from American firm Kohn Pedersen Fox the London office of which they directed.[1] Pilbrow soon left the start-up to start his own firm.[2] The firm now counts numerous other former KPF-employees as partners, including Jon Neville-Jones and Mark Kelly, both formerly directors at KPF, and Kevin Flanagan, Allessandra Luzzatto, Andrei Martin, Rob Peebles, and Bernard Storch[3]. The firm's offices are located in the 1930s Art Deco Ibex House building in the City of London, which also houses the Fairtrade Foundation,[4] while also maintaining an office in Shanghai.

In addition to working across the Middle-East and Asia, PLP Architecture has worked with some of the most significant land developers in London and the UK, including Land Securities, Grosvenor, Heron International, and Mace Group. Other client's include the Qatar Foundation, Mubadala, Burberry and King's College London. [5]

The practice is currently building the new biomedical research facility for the Medical Research Council, The Francis Crick Institute at King's Cross St. Pancras together with HOK[6], the new headquarters of BSkyB[7], and the new Crossrail over-site development at Bond Street tube station[8], among other projects.

Proposals for London's first [Microapartment]] building on Stratford's High Street, the redevelopment of Sampson House and Ludgate House on the southbank next to the Tate Modern into London's densest residential area, and the 43-storey Heron Plaza Hotel, the first luxury hotel to be built in Central London in 30 years[9].

References

  1. ^ Branson, Adam. "Interview: Lee Polisano". building.co.uk. Building. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  2. ^ Branson, Adam. "Interview: Lee Polisano of PLP Architecture". Property Week. Metropolis. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  3. ^ "PLP Architecture". architecture.com. Royal Institute of British Architects.
  4. ^ "Trade Justice Movement". Wikipedia. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  5. ^ Klettner, Andrea. "AJ interview: how the KPF 'breakaway five' became 65". AJ Online. Architect's Journal. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  6. ^ "Architecture". Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  7. ^ "BSkyB Phase II". Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  8. ^ "Bond Street". Crossrail. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  9. ^ Jefford, Kasmira. "Geral Ronson sells Heron Plaza site to Singapore's UOL for £97m". cityam.com. City A.M. Retrieved 16 November 2015.