Percy Thomas Partnership

Percy Thomas Partnership was the trading name of the award-winning British architectural practice established some time between 1965 and 1973 as the successor to a series of earlier partnerships originally set up by Percy Thomas (1883–1969) in Cardiff, Wales in 1911/12.

It opened offices overseas and completed a number of prestigious buildings in Hong Kong.

Percy Edward Thomas was born in the northeast of England in 1883, but was well-travelled and started work as at a young age in Cardiff, Wales.

[1] He returned to England to work, but began collaborating with Ivor Jones of Cardiff, in architectural competitions.

[2][3] During the 1920s and 1930s the practice won a large number of commissions to design important civic buildings in Wales and England, including county offices for Glamorgan and Carmarthenshire, Lord Davies' Temple of Peace, Swansea Civic Centre, Aberystwyth University campus and a redesign of London's Euston Station.

The large mass of the building has been successfully formed into an impressive edifice as opposed to an oppressive monolith...

In terms of texture, colour, selection of materials and spatial experience this is a feast to be enjoyed".