About
PLP Architecture works globally across architecture and urbanism, helping clients navigate complexity to deliver long-term value through decisions grounded in context, behaviour and performance.
We believe architecture should connect people, place and purpose. We begin our work with a clear understanding of context including climate, culture, urban conditions and patterns of use. These factors shape how a building should perform, how it is experienced and how it contributes to its surroundings, ensuring our architecture is grounded, appropriate and relevant.
Buildings must be fit for purpose. We design environments that meet the needs of our clients and the communities who will use them, balancing commercial objectives with usability, social value and long-term performance. We believe performance and beauty are inseparable qualities of architecture that endures.
Each project is developed as a bespoke and carefully crafted response, shaped through close collaboration with our clients and strengthened by insight drawn from research, experience and disciplines beyond architecture. Adaptability, resilience and circular thinking are embedded to support longevity and environmental performance, allowing our work to add lasting value to the built environment.
Our approach is shaped by place, informed by research and focused on long-term performance, guided by principles that provide structure while allowing each project to respond to its context and brief.
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“Our role is to help clients make confident decisions, using design and research to create buildings that are purposeful, inspiring and deeply grounded in their context.”
History
PLP Architecture (Polisano Leventhal Partners) was founded in 2009, bringing together a considered way of working with the depth of experience and global reputation of its founding partners. Prior to establishing PLP, the partners collaborated for over three decades on major international projects, creating a foundation of trust, shared values and design excellence.
That experience is reflected in a substantial body of work that has set new benchmarks for value, performance and market appeal across major global cities.
Today, PLP operates with the assurance and capability of a long-established studio, while maintaining a culture that values thoughtful analysis, collaboration and clarity of intent. Our studio environment supports informed decision-making, drawing on collective expertise to address complex briefs with confidence.
In 2015, the launch of PLP Labs formalised the role of research and strategic insight within the practice. As PLP’s integrated research and strategy arm, PLP Labs examines emerging technologies, human behaviour and environmental challenges, translating insight into practical guidance that informs real projects and client decisions.
Together, PLP Architecture and PLP Labs support clients from early-stage vision and positioning through to the delivery of complex, high-performing buildings and urban environments.
Our integrated research and strategy consultancy that conducts and applies research to shape strategic decisions and improve architectural performance.
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Join a globally fluent studio where diverse perspectives, rigorous thinking and partner-led collaboration shape work that responds to a changing world.
A connected set of disciplines shaping the built environment through research, strategy and design, helping clients respond to complexity with clarity, confidence and long-term value.