Architects'_Co-Partnership
Architects' Co-Partnership
Firm of English Architects
The Architects' Co-Partnership (ACP) is a firm of English architects, founded in 1939 as the Architects' Cooperative Partnership by recent graduates of the Architectural Association School of Architecture.[1][2][3] It encouraged teamwork, and set out to be a practice in which all members would be equal.[1][2]
Its notable buildings include:
- Brynmawr rubber factory (Michael Powers, 1946–52, with Ove Arup), the first post-war building to receive listed status[1][4]
- Danegrove Primary School (1949–50)[5]
- Dunelm House, Durham (Richard Raines and Michael Powers, 1966)[6]
- "Beehives", St John's College, Oxford (Michael Powers, 1958–60), the first modern student accommodation at the University of Oxford[7]
- St Paul's Cathedral School, London (Leo de Syllas and Michael Powers, 1962–7)[8]
- University of Essex, Colchester (Kenneth Capon, 1964)[9]
- Wolfson Building, Trinity College, Cambridge (1968–72)[10]
- Levi Strauss & Co. UK HQ and distribution centre, Northampton (1999)[11]