Newham Design Review Panel
Members
Neil Deely (Chair)
Founding partner of Metropolitan Workshop Architecture and Urbanism,
Neil has designed major public buildings and large mixed-used projects in
the UK and overseas. His experience encompasses the disciplines of
urban design and masterplanning and the design of buildings in sensitive
heritage contexts.
He has taught in Architecture Schools in the UK and USA including Oxford
Brookes, Bartlett and Arkansas Universities at degree and post-graduate
levels. He is a Design Advisor for Urban Design for London and a CABE
Built Environment Expert. He has also served as an independent member
of the LTGDC Planning Committee.
Robert Sakula
Robert Sakula is founder partner of Ash Sakula Architects, based in
Clerkenwell, from where we practice architecture and urbanism throughout
Britain and overseas. Prior to setting up Ash Sakula in 1994, Robert
Sakula worked Clough Williams-Ellis, David Lea, and DEGW. Current
work includes urban regeneration schemes in Colchester, Chepstow,
Deptford and Newcastle, and the refurbishment of the Grade 1 listed
Brighton Dome. Robert Sakula is a Civic Trust Awards Judge, a RIBA
Competitions Advisor and a RIBA Awards Jury Chair. He has taught and
lectured at many schools in Britain as well as in Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo,
Milan and Chongqing.
Julian Lewis
Julian is an architectural co-founder and director of East and has
extensive experience of developing ideas, design and research as well as
project implementation on a wide range of building, landscape and urban
design projects. Recent award winning projects include, Acton Town
Square, Leyton Links public realm works, Bermondsey Square, and West
Ham Lane Hotel. Julian has been teaching since 1992 and was visiting
professor at the school of architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland from 2009
to 2011. He currently teaches architectural Diploma students at the Cass.
Julian is regularly invited to lecture nationally and internationally on the
work of East.
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Anna Radcliffe
Anna is an Architect with a special interest in community and social
infrastructure projects. Working with leading progressive practices,
including Michael Hopkins and Partners, Feilden Clegg Bradley, AHMM
and EllisMiller, Anna has developed a portfolio of successful, awardwinning projects. Diversifying her experience, Anna worked for CABE,
thereafter being appointed as a CABE Enabler and RIBA Client Adviser.
Anna has been a panel member for Hackney Design Review, and RIBA
East London Awards and is currently a member of Newham and
Lewisham Design Review Panels.
Lee Mallett
Lee Mallett is a chartered surveyor but spent much of his career as a
journalist and commentator on property, architecture, planning and
regeneration. He co-edits and publishes Planning in London magazine,
and Westminster and City Planning newsletters. He is former editor of
Estates Times (now Property Week) and Building Design. His consultancy
Urbik Limited works with developers and architects, helping them
communicate corporate aims and development/design projects. He has
been a property developer, and is non-exec' director of Transformer
Properties. He is studying for an MA in Spatial Planning and Urban Design
at London Metropolitan University.
Lindsey Whitelaw
Lindsey Whitelaw is a London based Landscape architect specialising in
public realm and the urban environment. A founding partner of the award
winning practice, Whitelaw Turkington, she is now working independently
and is involved in a number of projects including the regeneration of
Blackwall Reach aka Robin Hood Gardens. She is a Patron of the Urban
Design Group and also sits on a number of design review panels including
the LLDC Quality Review Panel and TFL major projects. She is especially
interested in the place making process and bringing together artists and
engineers as part of multidisciplinary teams.
Richard Ferraro
In the 1970s Richard worked on innovative, solar heated buildings in
France and the UK. In 1980 he was a founding partner of Energy
Conscious Design (Architects + Energy Consultants). As a director of ECD
Architects, he specialises in the design and construction of low energy
sustainable projects and urban regeneration. His work includes master
planning, housing, offices, industry, heritage and mixed use town centre
developments. He was project leader for ECD’s Banbury Museum, and
The Royal Ballet School in Covent Garden. Richard is an expert in low
energy retrofit of post-war buildings, including 1960s system built housing
and office buildings.
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Olaf Kneer
Olaf Kneer trained at Dortmund University and the Architectural
Association in London. He worked with Ian Ritchie and Llewelyn-Davies
before establishing Mueller Kneer Associates in 1997 and Casper Mueller
Kneer in 2010. Olaf taught Urban Design at the UCL Bartlett and was Unit
Master at the Architectural Association. He is currently co-directing the AA
Berlin Laboratory. Since 2007 Olaf has been a panel member of the
Newham Design Review Panel (DRP) and the MADE Review Board
where he provides professional design advice on key architectural
developments, helping to improve the quality of urban design and
architecture through the planning process.
Julian Hart
Julian is an urban practitioner and philosopher with a strong aptitude for
project management and creatively solving complex problems around
major urban development projects. His primary competency areas are
project management, town planning, urban design and housing design.
Over his career he has delivered planning and subsequent stages of
development for several major urban developments in and around
London. He is currently also a member of the Urban Design London
Design Review Panel. He has recently drafted a new book on urban
design theory.
Gerard Maccreanor
Gerard established Maccreanor Lavington architects in 1992 with Richard
Lavington. In 2012 Maccreanor Lavington established a new company;
MLA+ with Markus Appenzeller. In addition to the existing London and
Rotterdam offices a third office in Shanghai was opened in 2012,
responding to increasing work in emerging international markets.
Gerard has extensive experience in residential; hotel; retail; mixed-use
projects; large masterplans, and urban regeneration projects in both the
UK and the Netherlands. He is the Director in charge of the growing
portfolio of urban design commissions for which the office received the
Masterplanner of the Year, Architect of the Year Awards 2009.
Ann Griffin
Formerly a partner of Meadowcroft Griffin Architects – responsible for
developing a highly successful portfolio of projects including RIBA award
winning Lauriston School – Ann joined Maccreanor Lavington Architects
as Associate Director in 2013. Ann’s specialisation is in social
infrastructure projects, offering an appropriate architectural response to
rapidly evolving urban environments, social policy and changes in
demographics.
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Malcolm Turner
Malcolm is a chartered civil engineer and partner at Alan Baxter &
Associates. His expertise is in transport planning and movement
engineering, and over the last 20 years he has contributed to a broad
range of transport, public realm and regeneration projects around the UK
and abroad. He has developed movement strategies to support the
renewal of a large number of urban centres and provided movement
engineering advice for major public realm projects. Malcolm has worked
on masterplans for large greenfield and urban sites, with his input
encompassing initial strategy and feasibility, planning consent and delivery
of specific phases and buildings.
Philip Cave
Philip Cave heads up Philip Cave Associates, landscape architects and
urban designers, with expertise in sustainability, ecology, public art, and
public participation. His passion is to create places that give inspiration
and enjoyment to the people that use them, but at the same time are
logical and functional. Projects have ranged from regeneration and public
realm designs commissioned by public authorities to commercial schemes
where developers create or improve public spaces to environments that
are constructed. Philip has been on the Newham Panel for 6 years and
before that was on Southwark’s Review Panel.
Toby Johnson
Toby studied architecture at the University of Cambridge. He worked with
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard where he was Managing Director for the
three years before joining Haworth Tompkins in 2005.
Prior to joining Haworth Tompkins, Toby lead projects such as the Phoenix
Initiative for Coventry City Council, a major seven year regeneration
programme that was shortlisted for the 2004 Stirling Prize, the Dana
Centre, for the Science Museum, the Ruskin Archive at Lancaster
University and student facilities for the London School of Economics and
Trinity College, Cambridge. Since joining Haworth Tompkins, Toby has
played a role in the Young Vic Theatre Project, the National Theatre
Studio, Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre and the Liverpool One
Regeneration Project.
He has been involved with various professional bodies including being part
of the London Borough of Southwark design review panel, lecturing to the
Civic Trust and involvement with the RIBA.
Marcus Wilshere
Marcus is an Architect and Urban Designer. He is the London
masterplanning lead for IBI Taylor Young and a former director at Urban
Initiatives.
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Simon Child
Simon Child is a founding director of Child Graddon Lewis with over 25
years experience in the commercial, residential, leisure and education
sectors, both in the UK and internationally. Simon is currently overseeing
projects, including a rolling programme of refurbishment to the five-star
luxury Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, work on the William Sutton
Estate in Chelsea, school refurbishments and a number of projects in the
Brompton Quarter and Knightsbridge area. Recently completed projects
include the new Hobbs Flagship store in Covent Garden, the Royal
Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s Town Hall Customer Service Centre
and the headquarters building for The Restaurant Group in Southwark.
Simon assists the charity Social Mobility, sharing his wealth of experience
in the industry to students from disadvantaged backgrounds interested in
architecture and design.
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