Benoy

Benoy

The company was founded 60 years ago and started designing cowsheds and farm buildings and went on to reshape the Kowloon district of Hong Kong, among other locations worldwide.Benoy, founded in Newark, Nottinghamshire, is one of the world’s leading firms of Architects, Masterplanners and Interior and Graphic Designers.While continuing to develop its reputation in the retail and leisure markets, the privately-owned practice is now achieving widespread international acclaim in urban regeneration and in the mixed-use, transport, workspace, and residential sectors.The company remains fiercely proud of its Nottinghamshire roots and its UK portfolio, but now sees some 60 per cent of its business delivered overseas, predominantly in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Benoy was named Interior Design Firm of the Year at the Asia Pacific Real Estate Awards, where its project Elements at Kowloon was also heralded as Retail/Leisure Development of the Year. In 2007 the mixed-use Elements scheme won Best Shopping Centre at the international property conference and exhibition MIPIM Asia. Other international wins are the New Market Entrant of the Year at the UKTI India Business Awards and the Cathay Pacific Award for Enterprise.
Today Benoy has got offices in five countries and almost 500 employees of 38 different nationalities and has delivered its global ambitions in a way that makes it sensitive to local cultures, environments and characters. Benoy’s vision is to deliver a blend of locally sensitive sustainability with internationally exemplary architecture.

Team at benoy UK 2008: Clarissa Agazzi, John Albiston, Jonathan Alcock, Robert Bishop, Luke Bridges, Richard Coney, Dan de Bruin, Romina Gris, Michelle King, Yuan Liang, Pauline Long, Amelia Stephens, Jane Tai-Schmidt, Bethany Wilde. 

 

Awards

UKTI India Business Awards
Queen’s Award For Enterprise 2008
Cathay Pacific Award for Enterprise
New Market Entrant of the Year

 

Important Works

Eden Rock, St Bart's, Caribbean
Orio, Bergamo, Italy
Bullring, Birmingham, UK
APM Millenium Plaza, Hong Kong
Bluewater, Kent, UK
Water Gardens, Harlow, UK
Biomolecular Sciences Building, UK
Marks and Spencer, UK
Whitewater, Newbridge, Ireland
Parquesur, Madrid, Spain
Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Elements Mall, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Xintiandi, Shanghai, China
Pudong IFC, Shanghai, China
Observation Deck, Hong Kong
Retail & Leisure, Macao
Jardine House, Hong Kong
Central Festival Pattaya, Thailand
New Songdo City, Seoul, Korea
China World, Beijing, China
Hang Lung, Tianjin, China
i-SQUARE, Kowloon, Hong Kong
ION Orchard, Singapore
Noor Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Courtyard, Delhi, India
South Court, Delhi, India
Market City, Mumbai, India

 

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