Patera Building

The Patera Building prototype, a significant example of British High Tech architecture, was manufactured in Stoke-on-Trent in 1982 by Patera Products Ltd. In 1980, Michael Hopkins architects (Principal Michael Hopkins, Project Architect John Pringle, now of Pringle Richards Sharratt) and Anthony Hunt Associates engineers (Principal Anthony Hunt and Project Engineer Mark Whitby now of Whitby Wood) were instructed by LIH (Properties) Ltd to design a relocatable building 216 square metres in size.Longton Industrial Holdings Plc (LIH), an industrial group based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, commissioned designs for an “off the peg” relocatable industrial building made from steel. They wanted to expand their interests in steel fabrication and they intended to sell the buildings as a product

Patera Building

The Patera Building prototype, a significant example of British High Tech architecture, was manufactured in Stoke-on-Trent in 1982 by Patera Products Ltd. In 1980, Michael Hopkins architects (Principal Michael Hopkins, Project Architect John Pringle, now of Pringle Richards Sharratt) and Anthony Hunt Associates engineers (Principal Anthony Hunt and Project Engineer Mark Whitby now of Whitby Wood) were instructed by LIH (Properties) Ltd to design a relocatable building 216 square metres in size.Longton Industrial Holdings Plc (LIH), an industrial group based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, commissioned designs for an “off the peg” relocatable industrial building made from steel. They wanted to expand their interests in steel fabrication and they intended to sell the buildings as a product