Description: The Inland Revenue buildings were designed by Michael Hopkins and Partners in association with Ove Arup and Partners. They form an architecturally acclaimed landmark close to the centre of Nottingham, which received maximum score on the Building Research Environmental Assessment Method and was winner for the 1996 HVCA Green Building of the Year award. Michael Hopkins also designed the Manchester Art Gallery, the Jubilee Campus at Nottingham University, the New Parliamentary buildings and Westminster Underground Station in London and Glynebourne Opera House (and many others). The company was formed in 1976 and has five partners: Sir Michael Hopkins, Patty Hopkins, John Pringle, Ian Sharratt and Bill Taylor. The practice works from an office in Marylebone, designed and built by the firm in 1984, and comprises a total of sixty persons.