Sheppard Robson
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| Industry | Architecture, design, interior design, masterplanning |
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| Founded | London (1938) |
| Founder |
Sir Richard Herbert Sheppard Jean Shufflebottom |
| Headquarters | Camden Town, London, UK |
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Key people
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David Ardill Lee Bennett Helen Berresford James Dick Mark Dillon Dan Burr Andrew German Rupert Goddard Claire Haywood Mark Kowal Adam McGhee Malcolm McGowan Robert Myers Tony O’Brien Tony Poole Martin Sagar Eugene Sayers Alan Shingler Alex Solk |
| Website | www.sheppardrobson.com |
Sheppard Robson (previously Richard Sheppard, Robson & Partners ) is a British architecture firm, founded in 1938 by Sir Richard Herbert Sheppard, with offices in London, Manchester, Glasgow, and Abu Dhabi. It was particularly influential in the 1950s-1960s, pioneering the use of concrete shell structures, and in the present day as a leader in sustainable architecture, building the UK's first net zero carbon house in 2007 as well as designing the LEED Platinum Siemens Middle East Headquarters at Masdar City, which completed in 2014. The latter project was cited as exemplifying “a new generation [that] has emerged [at the practice], which is balancing performance, especially of the sustainable variety, with form” . The practice has offices in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Abu Dhabi and in the 2000s established an award-winning interior design group, ID:SR Sheppard Robson.
Sheppard Robson was founded in 1938 by Richard Sheppard, a technically skilled designer with a talent for developing new materials, who was disabled as a teenager by polio, and Jean Shufflebottom, his wife, a gifted architect in her own right. The company’s first big success was the Jicwood Bungalow in 1944, which used materials from aircraft manufacture.
By 1950 the company had built a reputation for large modern projects, and Richard Sheppard had a new business partner, Geoffrey Robson, who added his name to the company’s. At first they specialized in schools, building more than 80 in the 1950s. In 1958 the company won a competition to design a science college and memorial to Winston Churchill - Churchill College, Cambridge. Later they branched out into other public buildings, and by the 1970s they had built a strong reputation in commercial and retail buildings.
Sheppard was knighted for his work in architecture,
In the 1990s and 2000s the firm entered a period of growth with often large-scale buildings like The Helicon, Toyota/Lexus HQ, MediaCityUK, the Lighthouse, Barking Riverside and Siemens HQ Middle East. Many of these were important landmarks in the development of sustainable architecture. For instance, the Lighthouse was the UK’s first net zero carbon house, the Helicon was an early sustainable office/retail building, and MediaCityUK was built as a sustainable community, verified by international sustainability regulator BREEAM (the first corporate building to achieve this).
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