Bennetts Associates

Bennetts Associates Architects
Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon
Practice information
Key architectsDenise Bennetts,
Rab Bennetts
PartnersJulian Lipscombe
Simon Erridge
Peter Fisher
James Nelmes
FoundersDenise Bennetts,
Rab Bennetts
Founded1987; 39 years ago (1987)
LocationLondon, Edinburgh and Manchester
Significant works and honors
Buildings
Website
www.bennettsassociates.com

Bennetts Associates is a British firm of architects. It was founded in 1987 by Denise Bennetts and Rab Bennetts, who had previously worked for Ove Arup & Partners. In 2016 the firm's total shareholding was transferred to an Employee Ownership Trust.

In 1991 Bennetts Associates were shortlisted for the RIBA Building of the Year Award for Imperium Offices in Reading, and have been shortlisted for its successor, the Stirling Prize, four times: for the Richard Attenborough Centre at the University of Leicester in 1998; for the Jubilee Library in Brighton in 2005; for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2011; and for the BEAM arts and culture venue in Hertford in 2026.

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.

Projects

Projects undertaken by the firm have included:

References

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