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Pringle Richards Sharratt – Key Projects

Featured Buildings by PRS Architects, alphabetical:

Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, Midlands, central England, UK
Date built: 2007-08

photo from CABE
Approximate building construction cost: £11.5m
Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award Finalist 2009
A beautifully crafted new extension, and imaginative re-use of an existing building, now make the Herbert Art Gallery an impressive feature in Coventry’s regenerated city centre.

Oldham Art Gallery, north Manchester, Lancashire, north west England, UK
Date built: 2002
£8m approximate building cost
The “soft strip” of the old building has revealed many fascinating changes. The work has removed modern features to reveal elements of the building as it would have appeared in the 18oos. This is a key Heritage & Arts Centre project in Northwest England.

Saga Group Call Centre, Thanet, Kent, south east England, UK
Date built: 2010

image © Edmund Sumner
Saga Call Centre
This architecture practice was commissioned to design and fit-out a Call Centre for the Saga Group in Thanet, Kent. This was to be Saga’s second major Call Centre, and was intended as a model for future facilities across the country. The building was designed to accommodate 500 staff in the first phase with a further 250 staff in phase two. Staff turnover is an important consideration in designing Call Centres and the Client Brief stressed the importance of providing a comfortable and stimulating working environment of exceptional quality.

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Location: London, south east England, UK.

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Pringle Richards Sharratt is a British architectural studio founded in 1983 by Graham Pringle, Michael Richards, and John Sharratt. The practice was based in London and became known for its thoughtful contextual work, material sensitivity, and refined modernism, especially in residential, cultural, and mixed‑use buildings throughout the UK.

Design Approach:

Pringle Richards Sharratt’s architecture is distinguished by:

– A commitment to contextual urban design, carefully responding to site, surroundings, and history
– Attention to proportion, detail, and materials, often using brick, stone, and copper in nuanced ways
– Balanced modernism — contemporary and well‑resolved without being stylistically aggressive

Their work generally avoids architectural “gestures” for their own sake, instead focussing on quiet quality and enduring design that contributes positively to urban fabric.

Notable Projects:

Though the practice was relatively modest in scale, it produced several highly praised works including:

– Residential schemes in London and beyond – sensitive town houses and infill developments that respond to existing contexts and streetscapes
– Public and institutional buildings – community centres and small civic buildings built with careful material intention and spatial clarity
– Adaptive reuse and extensions – projects that reinterpret heritage buildings with contemporary language