Range of Work
We have been fortunate as a practice to be involved in a very wide range of projects, each contributing to our knowledge and development. These include visions and strategic planning, master planning and urban design, architecture and art, exhibitions and landscape, civil, structural, glass and fabric engineering, applied science and industrial design.
Examples:
In Urban Space and Master Planning:
- Cyfarthfa Plan (2020)
- Humber Bridge Masterplan (2018)
- Malta ‘Whole Island’ tall building study (2017)
- Old Royal Naval College Masterplan (2016)
- Malta Central Business District (Mriehel) Masterplan (2016)
- Covent Garden Urban Development (2013)
- Royal Docks Development Strategy, London, (2011-12)
- Edinburgh King Stables (2010-11)
- Master plan Framework for The British Museum (2004-06)
- Master plan for the Westfield) Whitecity Mixed Use Development for Chelsfield and the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham (1999-2005)
- Master plan for Danish Radio & Television, Ørestad, Copenhagen (2000)
- Development strategy including infrastructure for 1000 hectares at Tremblay, south of Roissy Airport, Paris (1993)
- Heron Quays master plan and architecture, Canary Wharf London for Olympia & York (1989)
- Social, economic and architectural strategy for regenerating Digbeth, Birmingham, as a media district for Birmingham City Council (1988)
In Architecture and Art:
- Levitas at Arte Sella, nr. Trentino, N. Italy (2019)
- SWC Neuroscience Centre, UCL, London (2009-17)
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2017-22)
- Tunisia Memorial, Warwickshire (2017)
- Royal Academy of Music Opera House (2014-17)
- Royal Shakespeare Company The Other Place (2014-16)
- Mercer Walk, Covent Garden Mixed Development (2013-16)
- Farsons Old Brewhouse & Trident Park, Malta (2013-18)
- Landmark Wales international competition winners (2007)
- King Solomon Academy, Westminster, London (2006-10)
- Royal Shakespeare Company 1,050 seat Courtyard Theatre (2005-06)
- Wood Lane LUL Station (2000-08)
- Production Centre Plymouth Theatre Royal, Plymouth (1999 – 2002)
- Hawking Spacetime Centre (1999)
- The Spire, Ireland’s national monument, O’Connell Street, Dublin (1998-2003)
- Scotland’s Home of Tomorrow (SHOT), innovative social housing, Glasgow (1997)
- Temporary Royal Opera House, Tower Bridge, London (1997-2000)
- Crystal Palace Concert Platform (1996-97 and 2021-22)
- London Regatta Centre (1993-98)
- Glasbau Seele Factory international competition winners (1993)
- Primary School, Daours, France (1993)
- Leipzig Glass Hall + Leipzig Glass Bridges (1992-96)
- Terrasson Cultural Greenhouse, France (1992-95 and 2018-)
- Bermondsey Underground Station, Jubilee Line Extension (1990-99)
- Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art, glass circulation towers, Madrid (1989)
- Communication monument, a gift from France to Japan, international competition winners (1987)
- And many offices, residential and industrial facilities requiring rigorous appreciation of commercial considerations
In Landscape:
In Exhibition Design
In Civil, Structural and Glass Engineering:
- Commemorative Bridge, Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Dublin (2019 ongoing)
- Structural Cast Glass Façade, London 2013 (International patent application)
- National Grid HV Pylon (2011) International competition Laureat
- 400kV High Voltage Pylons Electricité de France (1994-99) International competition laureate
- Leipzig Glass Hall + Leipzig Glass Bridges (1992-96)
- Pedestrian bridge designs: River Thames, London (with Sir Alexander Gibb) and River Seine, Paris (with RFR)
- Fabric and tensile structures, Shelterspan system (with Peter Rice), La Villette (1980-86), Grand Arch Cloud, Paris (1988), Daours France (1993), Oberhausen Germany (2001)
- Louvre Pyramids and Sculpture Courts, (with RFR), Paris (1984-89)
- Lintas pedestrian glass bridge (with RFR), Paris (1984)
- La Villette Structural Glazing (RFR patented 1985)
In Applied Science and Industrial Design:
- Castaldi Office Uplighter Levita with Ulrike Brandi Licht + Castaldi (2017-18)
- Zebede Task Light with Ulrike Brandi Licht and Hamburg Licht (2008-2009)
- R&D and application of high performance light emitting diodes for public lighting (2001 ongoing)
- R&D for British Steel; Collaboration on R&D with SCI (1996)
- 3D control of light – researching the behaviour of electric discharge to establish with Jean-Louis L’hermitte/EDF in France (1985-86)
- Innovation of high performance glass systems (La Villette, Madrid, Dubai), robotics (La Villette mirrors, Leipzig cleaning robots) and light memory coatings with Pilkington Glass Ltd (1983-92)
- Research and development of light transmitting fabrics with European aerospace companies (1984-86)
- Research and application (Fluy, Eagle Rock, La Villette, Terrasson, Regatta Centre, Leipzig, SWC Neuroscience Centre) of energy intelligence in buildings (1976 ongoing).
