BDP - Key Persons
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- Architect Director Bristol
Adrian heads the healthcare team in our Bristol studio.
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- Architecture Director
- Director of Architecture Bristol
Akshay is an architecture director and leads the Education and Workplace teams in the Bristol studio.
//Project Mivida Retail District The Mivida retail district is part of the Emaar Mivida masterplan and is located approximately 28km east of downtown Cairo. Read more about Mivida Retail District
The aspiration is to create a dynamic commercial destination in the heart of Abu Dhabi.
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- Senior Architect
- Studio Manager Lima
Alessandra is a senior architect with extensive experience taking part in large scale projects of a variety of typologies in Peru, Italy and the UK.
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- Architect Director Singapore
- Associate Architect Interviewed for SEAB Sep - Oct Issue.
Having been promoted to architect director for the Singapore studio in 2021, Alexander brings a wealth of experience from across the Southeast Asia region to his day to day role of leading project design and delivery alongside the practices business development initiatives.
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- Principal
- Principal North America
Anna is a principal and leads the strategic direction of our Toronto studio.
Demolition of part of the existing buildings on the Site and all appropriate site clearance works, followed by the comprehensive refurbishment and extension of part of the existing buildings on the Site for offices with associated vehicle parking, storage areas and amenities for use and the construction on the Amenity Areas of the Amenity Works. BDP were the delivery architects on this project.
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- Architect Director London
Beth is an award-winning architect in the London studio with experience of designing and delivering masterplans and large historic and education building projects.
Driven by her passion for quality, she has a very strong creative skill set and collaborative leadership approach. Her experience in extensive consultation with end users, English Heritage, conservation bodies and local planning teams is invaluable in delivering successful projects.
She previously led the concept design of a number of significant education projects for King's College London, University of Birmingham and Canterbury Christ Church University and is currently playing a key role in the Restoration and Renewal Programme for the Palace of Westminster.
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- Architect
- Architect Director Rotterdam
- People
Architect Björn Bleumink describes how adaptive eco-systems can transform measures for water mitigation into an asset to enhance the public realm.
Björn is an architect director and leads the Rotterdam studio.
Björn Bleumink combines his passion for human centred architecture and the creation of livable, adaptable cities in one holistic design approach in which architecture, urban design and landscape are seamlessy connected.
With a strong focus on the public realm as active and vibrant space, and with the common domain as incubator for strong and coherent communities, Björn's vision fits well in the Dutch social housing tradition. Björn has over twenty years of experience at internationally renowned design practices and has a large track record of masterplans and architectural projects across the housing, leisure, education and healthcare sector
//People Björn Bleumink Björn is an architect director and leads the Rotterdam studio. Read more about Björn Bleumink
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- Architect
- Director
- Architect Director Dublin
Bobby is an architect director in our Dublin studio. He is a design-focused, delivery-oriented architect with extensive experience in the education and healthcare sectors and leads the New Children's Hospital team.
//Project New Children's Hospital The New Children's Hospital with associated Children's Research and Innovation Centre facilitates the specialist and complex care of young people with serious illnesses. Read more about New Children's Hospital
Bonham Quay is a mixed use development comprising 26,000 sqm of Grade A office space and 2,000 sqm of retail and restaurant space.
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- Associate
- Building Services Engineering Associate Dublin
Brian is an engineering associate in our Dublin studio, with overall responsibility for managing the electrical services design team.
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- Co - Head
- Principal
- Principal North America
Caroline is a principal, co-head of the media environments team and head of the interiors team in our Northern American studios.
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- Building Services Engineering Director Dublin
Chris is a technical director who manages the Building Services engineering team in the Dublin studio, ensuring that it retains its reputation for industry leading sustainable building designs of the highest quality.
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- Architect Director, Chris Oates
Architect Director, Chris Oates explains how new cancer centres are blurring the boundaries between personalised treatment and research, leading to new and improved treatment options for the future.
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- Architect
- Director
- Architect and Principal at BDP Explains Why Our Workplace Environments Must Adapt Quicker, Following a Shift in Post - Pandemic Working Patterns
- Principal Glasgow
Christoph Ackermann, Architect and Principal at BDP explains why our workplace environments must adapt quicker, following a shift in post-pandemic working patterns.
Christoph is an architect director in the Glasgow studio. He develops and delivers projects from inception to completion across a broad range of sectors including workplace, education and retail, specialising in major projects. Here he discusses the importance of designing for collaboration in the science, research and technology sector.
Christoph is an architect and principal in the Glasgow studio.
He has considerable experience in delivering major projects across a variety of sectors including science and research, healthcare, education, workplace and retail. He leads interdisciplinary design teams in the development and construction of complex projects from inception to completion and has been managing and realising projects using Building Information Modelling for over a decade.
He recently completed the award-winning Technology and Innovation Centre for the University of Strathclyde and is currently delivering the new School of Engineering for the University of Edinburgh as well as the Student Teaching and Learning Hub at the University of Strathclyde and the BioHub Project in Aberdeen. Previous projects include Nanjing Medical University, Eastwood High School, Lasswade High School, Buchanan Galleries and the Capella Building in Glasgow.
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- Director
- Lighting Designers
- Lighting Director
- Lighting Director London
Colin is a lighting director in our London studio and co-leads lighting profession with Tom.
Educated in architecture, Colin has subsequently worked as a lighting designer for 21 years, with 10 years experience at Speirs + Major and 6 years at Isometrix Lighting + Design prior to joining BDP in 2011.
At these studios he has contributed to internationally award winning projects including: Museum of Islamic Art - Galleries, Doha; Sakarin Mosque, Istanbul, Roca Gallery London, St Paul's Cathedral, Interior Lighting and ‘The Hive' UK Pavilion. His current work includes the Palace of Westminster, UCL and the University of Cambridge. He has a particular interest in developing innovative techniques for lighting within World Heritage venues plus Carbon Exemplary projects for cutting edge science institutes.
Colin has developed a series of lectures that look at how Light in Faith is represented from historical, religious and psychological perspectives in architecture and contemporary art, which he has delivered across the UK, Europe, North and South America. An organiser of a London Light & Film Festival, Colin also speaks about parallels of Lighting in Film, Theatre & Architecture. He has authored a number of articles for national and international professional lighting magazines and is a regular speaker at lighting events and conferences around the world.
Lighting director Colin Ball is a keynote speaker at both Share Belgrade and Share Sofia 2018, the international architecture and engineering forum for innovation and exploration of new materials and technologies.
Lighting director Colin Ball is interviewed on BBC radio Cambridgeshire about the lighting team's participation in e-Luminate Cambridge Festival 2017.
Lighting designers Colin Ball and Chris Lowe are both speakers at the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) Enlighten Europe conference in Prague.
Lighting director Colin Ball will present at 16.45 on the second day of the GIS International Interior Architecture Expo in Bucharest. Using the theme Lighting an Idea he will explore how architectural lighting has been misunderstood for many years as an engineered function of eyesight.
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- Architect Director Abu Dhabi
Craig is an architect director and heads our Abu Dhabi & MENA studio.
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- Principal and Head of the Birmingham Studio
- Principal, Architecture, Head of Birmingham Studio Birmingham
Dan is a principal and head of the Birmingham Studio which he founded in 2004.
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- Architect Director London
David is an architect director within the London studio, working on a range of projects within the culture and heritage sector.
David has a passion for the role buildings play in shaping cities and has designed and delivered a variety of prestigious, award-winning civic projects of a variety of scales. Often situated in sensitive contexts with challenging briefs, a large number of these have been secured as a result of David supporting clients in successful funding applications to bodies such as the Heritage Lottery Fund and positive engagement with local planning authorities and statutory consultees. This includes the extension, restoration and refurbishment of the Grade II* Leighton House.
David is skilled in working within a collaborative studio where ideas are rigorously tested and explored in pursuit of finding an appropriate architectural response. He enjoys working from concept, through to the detailing and technical challenges of projects, to develop crafted, sustainable solutions that fully respond to the client's brief.
David's student dissertation won the RIBA President's Medal in 2000 and he was featured in Building Design's top UK architectural graduates.
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- Principal, Building Services Engineering, Head of Dublin Studio Dublin
David is a principal and heads the Dublin studio. He also leads the building services engineering team in Ireland.
He actively promotes sustainable building design and has been involved in a vast range of commercial, educational and healthcare building projects throughout Ireland.
David has overseen the retrofitting of new environmental control systems into the historic wings of the National Gallery of Ireland. Other notable projects include the fit-out of new offices for Yahoo!, the design of the ESB's new HQ offices in Dublin, a new Human Biology Building at NUI Galway and the 116 bed Mercer Institute for Successful Ageing at St. James Hospital Dublin.
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- Principal - Toronto North America
Dev is equal parts creative and pragmatic which leads to inspired and functional designs.
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- Building Services Engineer
Building Services engineer Diarmuid Reynolds explains how ten years of research has closed the knowledge gap in global office energy use.
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- Architect
- Principal London
Dipesh is an architect and urban designer and leads BDP Pattern, our sports and entertainment division.
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- Architect Director London
Elliot has led various projects ranging in scale from masterplan proposals to multi million pound new developments for both end users and developers.
He has worked on many of BDP's award winning workplace projects and has been instrumental in winning work in a variety of sectors including workplace, retail and transport both in the UK and abroad. Elliot led the team delivering Google's new headquarters in King's Cross. He is currently part of the design leadership team for the Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster.
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- Civil and Structural Engineering Director
Erik leads the civil and structural engineering team in the Bristol studio.
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- Principal - Toronto North America
Greg is inspired by the effect buildings and spaces have on people's perception of and interaction with the built environment.
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- Principal - Toronto North America
Heather has 20 years of experience designing, leading and managing award-winning projects in the residential, mixed-use, master plan and commercial sectors.
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- Chairman
- Chief Executive
- Group Finance Director
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- Project Manager
- Project Management Director Manchester
Hossam has a key role in Manchester's portfolio of international work including projects in Sweden, Egypt, Libya and Kuwait.
As a project manager Hossam has managed a large number of key projects from fee bidding stage up to completion including Siemens, Motorola and Hyundai for the semi conductors industry and subsequently the Rope Walks and Liverpool One where he was also closely involved with establishing BDP's studio in Liverpool.
Hossam qualified as an architect in Egypt before completing an Msc in project management. He is fluent in French and Arabic as well as English, a great asset in his involvement in the development of BDP's firmwide international strategy.
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- Architect
- Principal
- Principal London
James is an architect and principal and he has contributed to many of the workplace studio's award winning projects.
He has led the design of several major interdisciplinary projects, including One Angel Square in Northampton, the BBC Mailbox in Birmingham, Royal Festival Hall Extension and various BBC Framework Projects. He is currently leading a major refurbishment of a 22 storey tower in Victoria for Westminster City Council.
He believes the most successful projects spring from effective interdisciplinary working, where innovation is stimulated by bringing talented individuals together from traditionally disparate disciplines.
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- Co - Head
- Principal
- Principal - Toronto North America
Jeff is a principal, co-head of the media environments team and head of retail and special projects for our North American studios, designing and executing on projects that combine inspired design, advanced technology and complex scheduling challenges.
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- Architect
- Director
- Leader
- Principal
- Principal, Head of Asia Pacific London / Singapore / New Delhi
Architect director, Jeremy Farrington, looks at how we can take positives and learn from our colleagues in Asia who have already experienced the same changes and effects that the UK embarks upon during the COVID-19 pandemic, becoming operational and effective whilst complying with Government guidance, safety measures and restrictions.
Jeremy is an architect and principal and heads our Singapore and New Delhi studios.
Singapore studio leader Jeremy Farrington talks about how BDP and Nippon Koei are collaborating on large infrastructure projects in South East Asia for greater integration and physical and economic connectivity in the region.
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- Principal
- Principal - Toronto, Director of Human Space North America
Jesse is a principal who collaborates with BDP's leadership in steering the future direction and growth of the practice across North America.
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- Architect Associate Birmingham
Joan joined the Design Studio at BDP in 2017. Previously she worked for 5 years in AHR Birmingham where she has experience in leading teams on renovation projects, new builds and refurbishments across a number of sectors including Residential.
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- Associate
- Architect Associate Dublin
Jonathan is an associate architect with a broad range of experience in the workplace, education and commercial sectors.
A below ground retail environment at Canary Wharf. Jubilee Place comprises a primary, below ground, mall with full height glazed shop frontages, an elliptical court with integral stepped seating and high quality food hall.
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- Interior Design Director
- Interior Design Director London
Katharine is an interior design director with experience in the workplace, education and healthcare sectors.
Her work now focuses largely on healthcare projects including the highly commended Alder Hey Children's Health Park in Liverpool which has won many awards including the Mix award for public sector interior project of the year. Currently she is interior design lead for the 3Ts hospital development in Brighton and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore. Previous projects include the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital, Brighton and Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospital development.
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- Architect
- Associate
- Associate Architect Rotterdam
Kerstin Tresselt is an associate architect and leads the architecture division in the Rotterdam studio.
Kevin is a Chartered Landscape Architect based in our Dublin Studio.
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- Architect and Associates ( KKAA ) and LAETOLI Corporation Will Recreate the Nakagin Capsule Tower Currently under Demolition, for Auction Utilising NFT Technology
Kisho Kurokawa Architect and Associates (KKAA) and LAETOLI Corporation will recreate the Nakagin Capsule Tower currently under demolition, for auction utilising NFT technology.
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- Managing Director of Practice North America
Laura Rachlin, AIA, LEED AP brings her passions for both the art and science of architecture to her work. She relies on her extensive experience to enable her to creatively approach her responsibilities as the Managing Director of Practice in our North American Studios.
Leicester St Margaret's bus station is set to become the UK's first carbon neutral bus station as our efficient new building designs have been approved by Leicester City Council.
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- Co - Founder
- Principal
- Principal North America
Les is a principal, co-founder and Studio Head in our Toronto studio.
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- Architect Director Edinburgh
- Director and Member of the Leadership Team for BDP Pattern
Lindsay is an architect director and member of the leadership team for BDP Pattern, the sports and entertainment division of BDP.
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- Architect
- Director
- Architect Director London
Luke is an architect director, parametric designer and member of the leadership team for BDP Pattern, the sports and entertainment division of BDP.
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- Business Director
- Head
- Leader
- Director at Our New Delhi
- Urbanism Director, Head of New Delhi Studio New Delhi
Manisha Bhartia, urbanism director at our New Delhi studio will be joining Peter Jenkins, architect director and head of transport, and Ashwini Thorat, Noida International Airport's head of design and planning, at Passenger Terminal EXPO taking place on Thursday 16 June.
Manisha Bhartia, our India studio leader was invited to moderate a session on InfraTech (technology in the infrastructure sector).
Manisha is the business director and head of our India studio, responsible for business and design strategy for BDP's work across the region.
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- Architect at the Ricardo Palma University
Maria Sol graduated as an architect at the Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru. She has experience in large and small-scale commercial, residential, office, and sports projects.
Mark is an architect director in the Liverpool studio.
Lighting directors Mark Ridler and Colin Ball will both present on the second day at the 2016 Lightspace/Lux Live conference and exhibition.
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- Landscape Architect Director Bristol
Martin is a landscape architect director and leads the landscape profession in the south west
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- Architect
- Director
- Architect Director Bristol
Matthew is an architect director in the Bristol studio leading the commercial regeneration and residential sector projects in the South West.
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- Head
- Associate, Head of Landscape, New Delhi New Delhi
Meetali is the head of landscape at our New Delhi Studio.
Mehron is a landscape architect director in the London studio.
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- Principal, Architecture, Head of Culture & Leisure Dublin
Michael is an architect and principal in our Dublin studio who has led teams on a range of projects such as hotel, leisure, residential and workplace.
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- Architect
- Director of Innovation North America
Michelle is an architect and the Director of Innovation in the Toronto Studio.
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- Architect Associate Birmingham
Michael joined BDP in 2017, and has 6 years of experience working across multiple sectors. He has key expertise in Building Information Modelling (BIM).
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- Architect Director Cardiff
- Head of the Cardiff
Nick is an architect director and leads the Cardiff studio, which was established in 2019.
Nick Durham, head of the Cardiff studio, outlines how the shift to hyper-local high streets, sped up by the Covid pandemic, offers a boost to wellbeing, communities and local economies and a chance to reinvent urban design.
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- Chief Executive, Head of Bristol & Cardiff, Head of Abu Dhabi Bristol
Nick is our chief executive and leads the practice's business strategy.
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- Building Services Engineering Director Dublin
As a Director; Patrick is responsible for managing the Building Services team in Dublin and also represents BDP as a Business Development Director.
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- Architect Director Birmingham
Paul is an architect director in our Birmingham studio.
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- Architect Director Shanghai
Paul is an architect director who has recently joined our team in the Shanghai studio after previously working in both the UK and China.
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- Architect
- Architect Director, Head of Transport Manchester
Peter chairs the transport sector and is widely experienced in rail related transportation work.
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- Architect Director Shanghai
Peter leads the Shanghai studio. He has a deep understanding of the commercial and technical aspects of large complex projects and has extensive experience as an international architect.
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- Associate, Head of Urban Design, New Delhi New Delhi
Radhika is an urban designer and heads the urbanism team in New Delhi.
Rasak leads the electrical engineering services in BDP as well as the workplace sector projects for engineering in the London studio.
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- Architect Associate Dublin
Rebecca specialises in designing and coordinating low energy office buildings both in Ireland and internationally for owner occupiers and developers.
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- Architect Associate Birmingham
Ronan works across a variety of sectors, specialising in the design and delivery of some of BDP's most complex and large-scale infrastructure projects.
Ruth is an architect director in the London studio.
Sami believes innovations emerge from problem solving rooted in design, technology and business creativity.
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- Principal - Toronto North America
Stefanie is passionate about people and believes that investing in relationship is the key in the success of a project.
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- Principal, Head of China, and MENA Studios Shanghai / Abu Dhabi / Manchester
Steve is a main board director, principal of our Manchester studio, chairman of our Shanghai and MENA studios, and director of architecture for Shanghai.
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- Architect Director Birmingham
Svetlana leads the education team in the Birmingham studio.
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- Design Director, India Digital Hub, New Delhi New Delhi
Swati is a building designer with over 14 years' experience on Indian and international projects.
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- Architect
- Director
- Architect Director Shanghai
Tianyi is an architect director in our Shanghai studio, providing day to day leadership including strategic planning and management, project design and project finance.
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- Design Director
- Architect Director Birmingham
Tom is a Design Director specialising in commercial sectors and urban regeneration projects with responsibility for the overall design integrity of projects.
In 2018, our landscape architecture team was appointed by Sligo County Council to produce a single, coherent concept for the city's public realm, to transform Sligo into a leading city in the north-west region of Ireland.
//Project East Wall Road The development on a landmark site in the East Wall area of Dublin City, will comprise the demolition of existing buildings and the construction of a proposed mixed-use scheme on the banks of the river Tolka. Read more about East Wall Road
Wren Hotel makes the most of its tight urban site offering 137 compact and luxurious bedrooms in the heart of Dublin.
Ximena graduated as an architect at Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru, in 2016. She has six years of experience in different kinds of architectural projects, from small renovations to big-scale projects.