humber design review panel

The Panel continues to offer independent design advice to development proposals from both Hull and North Lincolnshire in 2007/8.

2006/7 witnessed the growth of the Design Review Panel and now comprises a pool of 17 national Panel members with backgrounds in architecture, planning, urban design, conservation, landscape design and more. While Hull Council, Hull’s Housing Market Pathfinder, Gateway and Hull Citybuild continue to endorse the programme, the Humber Design Review Panel has now also expanded thanks to the support of North Lincolnshire Council, enabling the Panel to offer independent design advice to schemes from both North Lincolnshire and Hull. In the last 18 months 34 schemes have been independently reviewed by this expert Panel of professionals.

While the Panel continues to deliver quality design advice at monthly meetings, we hope to see the programme expand even further over the coming year in order to reach an even wider audience.

Many thanks to Hull City Council, HMR Pathfinder Gateway, Hull Citybuild, North Lincolnshire Council for their continued support of this programme.

Panel members:

Irena Bauman BA BArch, RIBA
Bauman Lyons Architects

Irena Bauman is one of the two founding members of Bauman Lyons Architects Ltd.  She has extensive experience leading complex projects and large regeneration teams.  She is a qualified project manager and has overall responsibility for the creative direction of the office. Her work has been widely published and received architectural awards.  She has led a number of collaborative projects with artists, writers, photographers and sound artists. Recent Projects include Bridlington Promenade for which they received a RIBA award, Morpeth Riverside Development and Flaxengate Media Workspace in Lincoln. Amongst other things Irena is CABE Champion for HMR and Growth Areas, a member of Yorkshire Forward Urban Renaissance Panel and Chair of Regions Committee for CABE.

Duncan Berntsen
BA(Hons) Dip Arch (Hons) CETA
Associate, Urban Renaissance Institute

Duncan has 25 years’ experience in public, private and academic interdisciplinary roles in service of the built environment having studied Architecture and Urban Design, Construction, Property Development & Planning, Value & Risk Management and Business Administration in the UK and USA. He is currently Programme Leader for MA Urban Design at the University of Greenwich London and leads research, consultancy and design practice within the UK and abroad.

Peter Ching
Principal. OCA

Peter is a principal of OCA based in London. He has over 27 years of international work experience, gained through employment in New York, London and Rome.  Peter participated on original masterplan and development of Canary Wharf since 1989 and has led many projects there including Canary Riverside, Canada Square Retail and project realm / open space related projects for Nash Court, Columbus Courtyard and Canada Square.  Recent urban design projects include the masterplans and frameworks for Sheffield City Centre, Camborne Pool and Redruth Development Framework, Sheffield Sheaf Valley CIQ Framework and Pacific Quay Masterplan in Glasgow. His architectural projects include the Scottish Equitable Headquarters Building, Reader’s Digest Headquarters, and Canary Riverside.  Peter has recently been appointed as a CABE Space enabler.

Professor Ian Colquhoun, BArch (Liverpool) RIBA MRTPI FRSA

After spending 1964-5 in local authority practice, Ian worked for six years at Washington New Town, twelve from 1971 with Sheffield City Council where he became Principal Architect (Housing) and seven from 1984 as Hull City Architect. He joined the Hull School of Architecture in 1992 and became Professor in 1995. Ian has been Visiting Professor at Queen’s University, Belfast and Chiba University, Japan and was a RIBA Councillor from 1983-1996 and Vice President in 1984-6. Recently Ian gained experience in community planning and helped establish arc. From 1991, he produced five books on housing design and urban regeneration.

Michael Gwilliam MRTPI, HON.RICS

Michael is the recently retired, former director of planning and transport at the South East Regional Assembly and Director of the Civic Trust. Currently member of the South East Design Panel and the policy council of the TCPA he has extensive design experience from Civic Trust annual awards and adviser to government in the establishment of CABE and the Urban Renaissance White paper. In 1990 Michael was responsible for establishing the now very successful Marston Vale Community Forest. He has recently been extensively involved in TCPA work on climate change.

Bridget Hansford BA(Hons) DipArch Landscape RIBA
Partner, SALT Architects

Bridget is a Partner at SALT Architects, where projects include buildings and landscapes for education, community, leisure and sport, residential, medical and Industry. She also has experience of historic and listed buildings, refurbishment, extensions and new build. Bridget has carried out extensive research and consultancy work to encourage community and client participation in the design process including working with school children to design landscapes and playgrounds.

David Hickling Bsc Dip TP MRTPI
Partner, Hickling-Gray Associates

David Hickling is a Chartered Town Planner with 28 years experience in both the public and private sectors. He is a partner in the Beverley-based Town Planning consultancy Hickling-Gray Associates and a Director of The Planning Cooperative. David’s time is spent equally between consultancy and training work for private clients, local authorities and Government bodies including the Environment Agency, Natural England, and English Partnerships. David lives with his wife, two children and a variety of animals in a restored Manor House at Leconfield, East Yorkshire.

Mark Hodson BA Dip.Arch RIBA
Partner, Hodson Architects

Mark is a partner at Hodson Architects, a medium sized award winning practice based in Grimsby and established in 1992. Their work covers everything from one-off houses for private clients to large scale housing schemes. The practice won Building Magazine’s Sustainable Building of the Year Award in 2005 for the Ecology Building Society in Silsden. Mark studied at Hull School of Architecture and has taught at Hull, Leeds and Nottingham Schools of Architecture.

Andrew Knight
RKL

Andrew is a Public Art and Design Consultant having graduated from University of Newcastle with BA (Hons) Fine Art.  His professional life is centred around public engagement with contemporary culture in all its forms with a particular emphasis on the visual arts.  He has worked in the public and private sectors at national, regional and local levels including the Welsh Arts Council and has experience ranging from the development and implementation of strategic policy initiatives to the integration of contemporary art practice within urban regeneration schemes and the detailed management of capital and revenue programmes.

Keith Knight BA (Hons) Dip Arch MA(York) RIBA IHBC APMP
Director Heritage-led Regeneration Dean Knight Partnership

An architect, historic buildings consultant and project manager with extensive experience in the private sector, local authorities and government agencies. Providing a wide range of consultancy services and expert advice in the complex area of the historic built environment, architecture and planning. Chair of the Yorkshire Region of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and on the Institute’s National Council, the HLF’s Panel of Expert Advisors, and the Historic Buildings Committee of the R.C. Diocese of Middlesbrough.  A judge for the Leeds Awards for Architecture, Keith is a lead assessor for the Civic Trust Awards.

Tom Lonsdale MLI; Dip LA; DA
Director, Camlin Lonsdale Landscape Architects

Tom trained as a landscape architect and has occupied the senior professional ranks of that profession for 30 years, including serving as Chief Landscape Architect with Manchester City Council, and has also diversified into urban design, masterplanning and urban regeneration.  This breadth of experience has resulted in him becoming a regular choice of CABE and other agencies for design review, strategic enabling and mentoring. He is an active educationalist, regular speaker at conferences and design competition judge, in the UK and abroad, and contributes heavily to community regeneration in his home town.

Astrid Lund BArch, Dip Arch, ARB

Astrid is an Architect with a good understanding of housing, both from a design, social and market angle. She has worked for Hull City Council, where she was involved in Orchard Park and North Hull regeneration as well as the initial transfer of Council Housing Stock (HAT). Her first architecture job in her native Oslo, taught Astrid that affordable and social housing does not need to be inferior in design quality. This belief has stayed with her throughout her work and has been re-emphasised in the last 3 years in her work with Llewelyn Davies Yeang, a firm that has been at the forefront in developing a new Urban Design thinking. Astrid currently works as a part time Architecture Tutor at Newcastle University.

Dipesh Patel BSc BArch MAUD RIBA
Principal, Arup Associates

Dipesh Patel is an architect and urban designer. His architectural projects include The KC Stadium in Hull (concept), The City of Manchester Stadium, Hong Kong Station, UBS Warburg Investment Bank and New College, University of Durham. He is currently completing the Kensington Oval in Barbados for the 2007 Cricket World Cup Final. Most of his projects have a significant regeneration and civic emphasis. His master planning and urban design experience includes campus planning at Stockley Park and Durham University and mixed use schemes for Berlin, Glasgow, Hull, London Philadelphia.
Dipesh has taught at universities in America and Britain and has lectured and presented papers on stadium design internationally. He was a Jury Chair for the 2005 RIBA Awards.

Richard Scott BA(Hons) Dip Arch RIBA
Director, Surface Architects

Richard studied at SCI-Arc in LA and The Bartlett with Peter Cook, gaining distinction in Diploma. His work has been exhibited in LA, New York and London. With Andrew Zago he built a studio for Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University in 1994. He then worked for Will Alsop, whilst lecturing and teaching at the Bartlett, AA, RCA, Cornell and SCI-Arc. In 1999 Richard founded Surface, now a leading young practice, coming 3rd in the Young Architect of the Year Award 2004 & 2005. Recent projects have received critical acclaim, with RIBA Award winning ‘Lock-keeper's Graduate Centre’ in London, short-listed for the Stephen Lawrence Award 2006.

Alan Simpson MSc. DipArch RIBA MRTPI
Architect Urbaniste - Fitz-Gibbon Professor of Urban Design

Alan Simpson is an Architect Urbanist, teacher and writer. He has worked across the UK, in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, and the United States, with national and local government agencies, universities, community and business interest groups, and interdisciplinary professional teams, brought together to respond to critical social, economic and environmental urban planning and urban design problems and opportunities.  He taught at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Liverpool, University College London, and was Fitz-Gibbon Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Carnegie Melon University Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Alan Simpson led the creation, growth and application of the Yorkshire Forward (UK)
Urban Renaissance and Town Team Programs.

Ian Tod, MA (Cantab) ARB
Director, Allen Tod Architecture

Ian is Director of Allen Tod Architecture having founded the practice in 1977. The practice has completed a wide range of work from urban design, education and health to social and private housing, and have developed a particularly keen interest in establishing viable and economic solutions to brownfield sites and historic building reuse. Ian is also involved in writing, teaching and lecturing both at home and abroad and in 2000 set up the 4x4 series of lectures to stimulate debate and understanding amongst those engaged in making our towns and cities.

Marcus Wilshere BSc (Hons) DipArch MAud (Dist) RIBA MRTPI
Director: Urban Design Associates

Marcus is an architect and urban designer with 20 years’ experience in a range of building and planning projects. He has expertise in a variety of sectors, including commercial developments, arts and heritage-based projects and housing design. Marcus is a past Chair of the Urban Design Alliance (UDAL) and Vice Chair of the RIBA’s Urbanism Panel. As well as regularly lecturing on urban design, Marcus is a member of the Enabling Panel of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE).