CABE's design review panel

Our design review panel consists of over 40 expert advisors drawn from England's architectural, built environment and creative communities.

The design review panel is chaired by CABE commissioners MJ Long, Piers Gough, Hanif Kara, and Deyan Sudjic.

Panel members

Bob Allies

Bob is one of the founding partners of Allies and Morrison. The practice was responsible for developing the masterplans for King’s Cross Central and Brent Cross Cricklewood, and has also been involved extensively in the planning and design of the 2012 Olympics. The practice designed the new BBC buildings at White City, the Bankside development in Southwark, the Heart of the City project in Sheffield, and a series of university buildings in Oxford and Cambridge. In 2007 it completed the restoration and transformation of the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank.

Paul Appleton

Paul is a partner of Allies and Morrison. He joined the practice in 1984, following the competition-winning redesign of the space between the National Gallery of Scotland and the Royal Scottish Academy at the Mound in Edinburgh. The practice was named Architect of the Year at the Building Design Awards in 2007, a year that also saw the opening of the Stirling Prize-shortlisted, transformed Royal Festival Hall, and the new planetarium and Centre for Modern Astronomy at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, both led by Paul.

Keith Bradley

Keith is a senior partner with Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, vice chair of CABE's design review panel and trustee of Shape East, Cambridge. He led the Accordia housing scheme which won the 2008 RIBA Stirling Prize (with Maccreanor Lavington and Alison Brooks Architects) and has a mixed-sector workload that includes high-density urban housing schemes, major urban regeneration schemes including in Manchester and Leeds, three London Academies and two new buildings for the RAF Museums. Projects include the masterplan and design of London's largest student campus for Queen Mary, University of London, the London Centre for Nanotechnology for UCL and Imperial College. Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios was awarded 2009 Sustainable Designer of the Year.

Alison Brooks

Alison established her London-based practice Alison Brooks Architects in 1996. The practice focuses on public, urban and housing projects, and Alison is the first UK architect to have won all three of the UK’s most prestigious awards for architecture (the 2006 Stephen Lawrence Prize for Wrap House; the 2007 Manser Medal for Salt House; and the 2008 Stirling Prize for Accordia, Cambridge, which ABA shared with Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios and Maccreanor Lavington).

Catherine Burd

Catherine is an architect and partner of Burd Haward Architects, founded with Buddy Haward in 1998. The practice has delivered a range of project types - award-winning housing, schools, commercial developments, restaurants, and arts spaces. In 2005 she and Buddy were selected as part of '40 under 40', an exhibition showcasing the best of current young British architectural talent. Catherine has taught at the University of Westminster and has been a guest critic at a number of architecture schools. She is an RIBA competitions advisor, and has been an assessor on several awards panels, including the RIBA and Civic Trust.

Victor Callister

Victor is the street scene manager for the City of London, where the emphasis is on creating the highest possible quality of environment for people in the limited space between buildings. Victor manages a team of professional town planners and project managers, who deliver projects in partnership with City businesses, usually with complex funding arrangements. Although a chartered town planner, Victor's background is in the visual arts and urban design. His personal interest is in making projects happen within a complex funding/urban/stakeholder context.

Peter Clash

Peter is an architect and director of Clash Associates, based in London. The practice’s work includes urban planning, infrastructure, sports, arts, and leisure projects, with schemes in the UK, Holland, France, and China. Peter has taught at the Architectural Association, and the universities of Westminster, East London, Newcastle, and TU Vienna.

Annie Coombs

Annie is a chartered landscape architect with a masters in planning. She has held senior management roles in landscape and environmental consultancy organisations, and spent 15 years in Asia. She is now an independent consultant, supporting local authorities in procurement and strategy production associated with green infrastructure, greenspace strategies, public realm and international design competitions. Annie is a design review panel member for Places Matter! and Urban Vision North Staffordshire; she represented CABESpace and the Landscape Institute on the selection panel for the Olympic parkland landscape architects; and is a CABESpace enabler. She sits on the expert’s advisory panel for the Planning Inspectorate and on the Landscape Institute’s policy committee and its fellowship admissions board.

Neil Deely

Neil is an architect and founding partner of Metropolitan Workshop Architects. The practice’s portfolio includes major architectural and urban design projects in the UK and mainland Europe. Before forming the practice, Neil was a director of MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects, where he worked for around ten years, leading the design of a number of important public, academic and residential building projects, including the redevelopment of Broadcasting House for the BBC. Neil has in recent years been responsible for the design of Adamstown District Centre, winner of the 2008 RTPI Sustainable Communities Award. Neil has studied and taught in the UK and USA.

Tony Edwards

Tony is an architect and landscape architect, and director of PLACE. He has led award-winning projects including Reading’s 180-acre Green Park, and is currently involved in planning large-scale mixed-use projects such as the 2,200-acre Kennet Valley Park. Tony has lectured at Greenwich University and been an awards assessor for the RIBA. He has sat on committees for the European Foundation for Landscape Architecture and the Landscape Institute. He is a member of the RIBA London urbanism and planning group, the Academy of Urbanism, and the American Society of Landscape Architects, and is a design panel member for the London boroughs of Richmond and Merton.

Jim Eyre

Jim is a director of Wilkinson Eyre Architects, the only practice to have won the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize two years in succession. He has a particular interest in combining architectural creativity and engineering principles in his design work, leading projects such as the iconic Gateshead Millennium Bridge. Jim has lectured widely in the UK and overseas and has led a studio at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design; he was President of the Architectural Association council from 2007 - 2009. He was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering President’s Medal for the promotion of engineering excellence in June 2004.

Noel Farrer

Noel worked as a local authority landscape architect before founding Farrer Huxley Associates in 1995. FHA specialises in urban housing, education, play, and open space. Noel’s passion is regeneration through consultation for the benefit of the whole community. Noel also lectures on design and is a visiting tutor for the Inchbald School. Noel’s expertise is in realising successful landscapes through in-depth understanding of political and public-sector working.

Sarah Featherstone

Sarah is an architect and director of Featherstone Young. She has designed projects in the housing, community, cultural, education, and commercial sectors. Her practice has been a finalist in Building Design magazine's Young Architect of the Year and Architecture Foundation’s Next Generation award. Sarah teaches at Central Saint Martins and has been a visiting critic at various UK architecture schools. Sarah is currently an external examiner at the Bartlett and London Met, and is a Civic Trust Award assessor and a judge on the RIBA President’s Research Medal.

Jim Fox

Jason Gardner

Bill Hanway

Bill is the executive director of operations for AECOM Europe. He gained his professional degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and qualified as an architect in the United States. He has 20 years of professional experience, combining the design and delivery of buildings with the urban design and masterplanning of new environments. His work focuses on urban regeneration projects, new community designs, campus and sports masterplanning. His current projects include the London 2012 Olympic Games and Legacy masterplans, and the Northwest Cambridge masterplan extension for Cambridge University.

Michael Hayes

Mike is an urban planner who has helped deliver a wide range of planning, regeneration, development, conservation, public realm, and community projects in England, Scotland and London. Examples include Wavertree Technology Park in Liverpool, Glasgow city centre public realm, and masterplanning both London’s South Bank and Watford’s health care campus. He is director of Michael Hayes Consulting Ltd advising clients in the public and private sectors on spatial planning, urban design, planning policy and development. A former president of the Royal Town Planning Institute, he is an honorary fellow of the RIBA, and an honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Housing. He is secretary to the National Planning Forum.

Gavin Henderson

Gavin is director at Stanton Williams Architects. The practice is known for projects in the fields of the arts, culture and education, and has won nearly 60 awards for its work. Gavin has particular interest in the urban realm and has worked on public space proposals in London for Tower Hill and Sloane Square. He is currently leading the new Sainsbury Laboratory for the University of Cambridge and the Stadtmuseum Berlin. Gavin has taught in architecture studios at the University of North London and has been visiting critic/lecturer at various UK universities.

David Hills

David is one of the founding directors of the architectural studio DSDHA. The practice’s projects include Pond Meadow Special Needs School in Guildford, the Emmaus Joint Denominational School in Sheffield, and a number of mixed-use housing projects. David has recently led a number of projects with artists, including ongoing collaborations with the ceramic artist Edmund de Waal. David has lectured widely in the UK and abroad. He has been a unit master at Cambridge University and the Architectural Association for the last ten years, and is currently an external examiner at Nottingham University.

Stephen Hodder

Stephen is the founding director of Hodder + Partners. In 1996 he won the inaugural Stirling Prize for Architecture for the Centenary Building, University of Salford. The practice has now won over thirty national awards for projects across all sectors. Stephen was awarded an MBE for services to architecture in the Queens Birthday Honours List, 1998. He received an honorary doctorate in 2006 from the Manchester Metropolitan University for his regional, national and international contribution to architecture, and won the Roses Design Award of Architect of the Year in the same year.

Tom Holbrook

Tom is a founding director of 5th Studio, whose recent work includes leading on the Lea River Park Design Framework (International Urban Landscape Silver Award) and the Creative Exchange building in St Neots (finalist for the Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award). Tom is currently directing work on a number of Olympic Fringe Legacy projects in East London, from masterplanning to building scale, and the design of spaces for innovation in Cambridge. Tom taught architecture for over ten years at the University of Cambridge; he was a winner of the Architects' Journal’s 40 under 40; he is a RIBA award winner; and a design advisor for the London Development Agency.

Gillian Horn

Gillian is a partner at Penoyre & Prasad architects, where she has led projects including the Merchants’ City Academy, the award-winning Richard Desmond Children's Eye Centre at Moorfields in London, and the new Crawley Library. She has also been responsible for a BSF design exemplar scheme, and is currently part of the team undertaking a major research project on behalf of the DCSF on personalised learning. Before joining Penoyre & Prasad in 1999, Gillian was project architect for Sarah Wigglesworth Architects' award-winning Straw Bale House in Islington. Gillian has contributed to a variety of architecture journals and given talks on education and design quality, including features on BBC Radio 4.

Simon Hudspith

Prior to setting up Panter Hudspith Architects in 1988, Simon gained his professional experience at Terry Farrell Partnership, Venturi Rauch & Scott Brown, and ORMS. His projects include the Collection in Lincoln, Christ’s Lane in Cambridge, Princesshay in Exeter and Davygate in York, which have won a combined total of 18 awards (three RIBA, two Civic Trust, one AIA and twelve construction awards). He is currently leading project teams designing over a thousand new homes in Southwark including two schemes in Elephant and Castle, London; a masterplan for the centre of Beverley; and three residential buildings within the Athlete’s Village for the 2012 Olympics.

Adrian Jones

Adrian is an independent consultant specialising in the integration of planning, urban design and transport. He was director of planning, transport and highways at Nottingham City Council from 1997 to 2007, and was responsible for its successful regeneration strategy based on radical transport policy and ambitious masterplanning. In his earlier career he specialised in conservation and worked on the renovation of Nottingham’s historic Lace Market. Adrian has led the integration of urban design, streetscape and pedestrian-friendly highway design, and has championed some exciting and controversial new architecture and design.

Matthew Kitson

Matthew is director of sustainability at engineering consultancy Hilson Moran, heading a dedicated team in providing environmental, sustainable and engineering design advice to clients on a wide range of landmark projects across the UK, Europe and the Middle East. His design ethos is to develop well-engineered, functional buildings and masterplans that are sustainable and environmentally progressive. Starting his career as a mechanical engineer, Matthew went on to specialise in the application of advanced environmental computer modeling, managing environmental specialist teams at a number of leading consulting engineers. Matthew is a regular speaker on environmentally responsible design and sustainable solutions at national and international summits and universities.

Marcus Lee

Marcus co-founded FLACQ Architects in 2005. The practice was shortlisted for Building Design magazine’s 2007 Masterplanning Architect of the Year after winning Urban Splash’s international competition for Morecambe Central Promenade; and Brislington Enterprise College (in collaboration with Wilkinson Eyre Architects) was highly commended in the 2008 BSF Awards’ best new school building category and won the best school team category. Marcus was previously associate director at Richard Rogers Partnership, where he worked for 21 years. At RRP he was project architect for Heathrow Terminal 5 and for the 2006 Stirling Prize-winning competition design for Madrid’s Barajas airport. He is also a Hackney design panel member.

John Lyall

John has been in practice for 28 years, first as Alsop & Lyall and for the past 16 years as John Lyall Architects. His work ranges from housing to rail stations to urban regeneration. Award nominations include the Stirling Prize (North Greenwich Station) and the Architectural Review/MIPIM future projects award (Cranfield Mill, Ipswich); awards include conservation awards for historic buildings (Corn Exchange and White Cloth Hall in Leeds). Current work includes DanceHouse for Dance East in Ipswich, an ‘eco’ school in Essex, and the remodelling of Perth City Hall in Scotland. John is the RIBA Trust deputy chair, a CABE enabler, and a teacher and examiner.

Gerard Maccreanor

Gerard has been the director in charge of Maccreanor Lavington’s Rotterdam office since 1998, where he has overseen the design and construction of over 2,500 new homes. He is the managing principal for a number of large-scale urban design projects, including South Dagenham West, and London and Thameside West in London. Gerard is currently overseeing a number of infrastructure projects, including the DLR extension from Beckton to Dagenham in London, a transport interchange in Dagenham, and a new metro station at Kraaiennest in Amsterdam. Maccreanor Lavington were winners (with Feilden Clegg Bradley and Alison Brooks Architects) of the 2008 Stirling Prize for Accordia, Cambridge.

Nigel McGurk

Nigel is managing director of Ainscough Strategic Land, a strategic land, planning, partnerships and regeneration business. Nigel began his career as a labourer with Blackburn Borough Council, then as a chartered town planner with Lancashire County Council. He was responsible for establishing Countryside Properties’ strategic land and regeneration business in the north of England and was previously managing director of Wilson Bowden’s strategic land business. He is the chair of the Leyland Board, South Ribble Borough Council’s public-private partnership.

Dominic Papa

Dominic is director of S333 Architecture + Urbanism, which he co-founded 13 years ago in the Netherlands and now has its base in London. S333’s design approach crosses the boundaries of architecture, and urban design. The practice's Block 3 Tarling Regeneration won awards in 2009 and was the first affordable housing project to be shortlisted for the Manser Medal. He is professor in practice at the Architectural Association and has taught on its Housing and Urbanism programme since 1997. He was a jury member for Europan 8 and 9, and for the RIBA awards jury 2010. He is also an expert panel member for the West Midlands.

John Pardey

John is an architect and director of John Pardey Architects. His work has won 30 awards, has been exhibited widely, and has been featured on national television. He has lectured at a number of schools of architecture both in the UK and abroad, including the South Bank, PCL (now the University of Westminster), Canterbury, Portsmouth, and the University of Southampton. He was previously a post-graduate external examiner at Oxford Brookes University and at Cardiff. He is author of two books for the Danish publisher Edition Blondal: Utzon – Two Houses on Majorca and Louisiana and Beyond – the work of Vilhelm Wohlert.

Dickon Robinson

Dickon is an independent advisor on architecture, housing, property development, sustainability, and urbanism. He has worked in management consultancy, architectural practice, housing development, and urban regeneration. He was assistant director of housing for the London Borough of Camden between 1976 and 1988, and director of development and planning for the Peabody Trust from 1988 until 2004. He is currently chair of building futures at the RIBA, chair of the Stratford City Environmental Review Panel, and chair of Living Architecture. He has been a member of the English Heritage/CABE Urban Panel since 2000, and is a member of the City of Bath Urban Regeneration Panel. He has recently been appointed to the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England. He was a CABE commissioner between 2000 and 2007, and was the first chair of CABE Space between 2003 and 2007.

Tim Ronalds

Tim is the founding director of Tim Ronalds Architects. Established in 1982, early practice projects were included in the Four London Architects exhibition at the 9H Gallery in 1990. The practice now specialises in arts, education and public projects; notable projects include Hackney Empire and the Landmark, Ilfracombe. Designing buildings for the creative arts is a fundamental enthusiasm for the practice. Tim has taught at the Architectural Association and Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and has been a visiting critic, lecturer and external examiner at schools of architecture throughout the UK. He is a design advisor to Design for London.

Jon Rowland

Jon is director of the urban design practice JRUD. Masterplanning projects include Telford Millennium Community, Sandymoor urban extension in Runcorn, and the urban extension of Grove, Oxfordshire. Jon has written articles on housing, development and urban design, is author of the Strategy for Architecture and the Built Environment in the South West, and co-editor of Urban Design Futures. He was chair of the UDG, and was an advisor to the GLA on London’s spatial development strategy. Jon is a CABE regional representative and enabler.

Malcolm Smith

Malcolm is the founding leader and design director of the integrated urbanism unit of Arup. He leads a wide range of urban design projects both in the UK and internationally, such as Dongtan eco-city, Shanghai, and Northstowe New Town in South Cambridgeshire. Malcolm joined Arup after completing his Masters in architecture at Yale University. Before that he worked in Australia on projects including tertiary education buildings, entertainment, and arts facilities. Malcolm is a visiting tutor at the Bartlett and Yale University. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an associate of the Australian Institute of Architects.

Mark Swenarton

Mark is an architectural critic and historian, and head of the architecture school and professor of architecture at Oxford Brookes University. Until 2005 he was publishing editor of Architecture Today magazine, which he co-founded in 1989, and also of EcoTech, the first professional architectural journal in the UK dedicated to sustainable design. As an architectural historian, he has written extensively about 20th century architecture: his first book was Homes Fit for Heroes. He has lectured extensively at universities in Britain and the USA, and was formerly visiting professor of architecture at Nottingham University.

Andrew Taylor

Andrew is one of the founding partners of Patel Taylor. Following the award-winning design for Thames Barrier Park in London’s Docklands, the practice is currently involved in the design and implementation of two plots for the 2012 Athletes Village and City Park, Birmingham’s first new city park for over a century. Andrew is a visiting professor at the Welsh School of Architecture, a member of Newham’s design review panel and an assessor for RIBA competitions, the Civic Trust and the RIBA awards.

Neil Thompson

Neil joined Great Portland Estates (GPE) in 2002 and was appointed to the board as development director in 2006. He has 18 years’ experience working for central London investor/developers, and previously worked for Derwent Valley Holdings and Legal & General. GPE has a development programme of over 2.9 million square feet, and completed projects include the Met Building (ORMS), 180 Great Portland Street (Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands), and 160 Tooley Street (AHMM). Neil is chairman of the central London judging panel for the British Council for Offices and serves on its management board. He is a member of the Westminster Property Association and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Jonathan Ward

Jonathan is an associate director at Arup, in the award-winning building sustainability team. He has over 18 years’ experience in building engineering design, and specialises in developing sustainable design strategies and their translation into low-impact building projects. He has worked on a wide range of building and masterplan projects in the UK and overseas, and with a great diversity of architects and clients, targeting usable and cost-effective solutions that address the challenge of sustainable development. Jonathan is actively involved in the planning process, advising on policy and engaging in debate over the practical delivery of sustainable projects.

Chris Watts

Chris is an experienced sustainability practitioner and has worked on a wide range of regeneration and new-build projects. He was a founding director of Beyond Green, where he established the sustainable technology and construction team, helping to integrate sustainability thinking into design team approaches and solutions. Prior to this he managed the Housing Corporation’s innovation and good practice research programme on sustainability, and was a member of the steering group for Sustainable Homes and BRE EcoHomes. In 2007, he was expert adviser to the Housing Corporation for its Gold Awards and was a judge for the National Housing Awards.

Sarah Wigglesworth

Sarah heads her own practice based in London. The practice is interested in designing sustainable environments and in working with clients and users to make everyday worlds extraordinary. Its best known project is 9/10 Stock Orchard Street, an exploration of sustainable urban live/work which won the RIBA’s Sustainability Award in 2004. The practice works principally in the public sector, specializing in education, cultural and community projects. Sarah is also professor of architecture at the University of Sheffield where she established the PhD by Design. She writes and lectures extensively. In 2003 she was awarded an MBE for services to architecture.

Keith Williams

Keith is design director at Keith Williams Architects. His London-based firm was Building Design magazine’s public building architect of the year in both 2006 and 2008, and has won over 20 major design and construction awards. The practice’s projects include Wexford Opera House, Clones Library, and Athlone Civic Centre, all in Ireland; the Unicorn Theatre and the Long House, both in London; and he is currently designing the new District Museum in Chichester and the new Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury. He has judged numerous architectural awards schemes and competitions, and lectures widely on the firm’s work, which has been published worldwide.

Peter Wislocki

Peter’s expertise spans architectural practice, teaching, journalism, research, and property development. He has worked for architectural practices including Greenberg & Hawkes and Hurley Robertson in London, and Roquelaure Read Aranguren in Paris. He was responsible for Aukett’s operations in Poland and Russia, and was director of European operations with RMJM. Peter has taught at several schools of architecture, and is currently a visiting lecturer at Anglia Ruskin. He is a regular contributor to numerous professional journals, a member of the RIBA’s validation board, and occasional member of various awards panels. Peter is currently a director of Hedgehog Consulting, and a consultant to Nightingale Associates.

Tony Wyatt

Tony has 30 years’ public and private sector urban design and historic environment practitioner experience. He is associate director at _space group, responsible for its integrated regeneration, urban design and environment service. He also runs Urban Aspect, a specialist independent advisory consultancy. Previously Tony was the urban design and conservation group manager at Newcastle City Council. He is an executive member of the national Historic Towns Forum and an urban design advisor on the Home Office, Places Matter!, and Ignite North East design review panels. He is also vice chair of the new Integreat Yorkshire and the Humber regional design review service.