UCL PEARL officially opens

PEARL, the Person-Environment-Activity-Research-Laboratory, was officially opened on Tuesday 18th October 2022. "This is the most amazing research facility I've ever had the opportunity to visit. A flagship for creative trans-disciplinary research at UCL. Hats off to Professor Nick Tyler for having the vision and the persistence to make Pearl come into existence!" - Prof Hugo Spiers, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience UCL, Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation More

Net Zero Project of the Year shortlist

UCL PEARL has been shortlisted in the 'Net Zero Project of the Year' category in this year's Building Awards. PEARL–the Person Environment Activity Research Laboratory–is a first-of-its-kind research laboratory in which to create life-sized environments such as a railway station, high street, or town square, under controlled conditions, so as to examine how people interact with their urban environment and each other. More

Penoyre & Prasad’s angular addition to Birkbeck campus completes; Building Design

Cantilevered copper roof extension contains lecture theatre and classroom. A new teaching and learning centre for Birkbeck, University of London designed by Penoyre & Prasad has completed in Bloomsbury. The project is a refurbishment and rooftop extension of an existing 1920s building on Euston Road, near to the main Malet Street campus. More

Penoyre & Prasad has added a copper-clad roof extension to 373 Euston Road and transformed the building into a new campus for Birkbeck, University of London; Architecture Today

Penoyre & Prasad – an arm of the architecture and design firm Perkins&Will – refurbished and extended the 1920s building to include a 180-person lecture theatre alongside a new suite of classrooms and learning spaces close to Birkbeck’s main Malet Street Campus. More

The building that will house the world

‘One of London’s most remarkable new buildings.’ says Peter Murray of New London Architecture. Watch his interview with Professor Nick Tyler of University College London (UCL) and Penoyre & Prasad architect Michael Fostiropoulos. PEARL (the More

University of Manchester Win

Penoyre & Prasad have won the commission for the University of Manchester's new £200m Engineering Campus development as part of Dutch practice Mecanoo's design team. More