The buildings in my portfolio Cover a number of years starting in the early 1970s. All of these buildings were designed during the period when I was a partner at GMW Architects.
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My work portfolio
54 Lombard Street, City of London
54 Lombard Street was originally designed as a headquarter building for Barclays bank. It replaced the old headquarters building on this site in Lombard Street and it was necessary for the bank to move out for the duration of the building contract. A few years after Barclays moved back into the new 54 Lombard Street…
40 Grosvenor Hill, Mayfair, Westminster
40 Grosvenor Hill is a small office building in Mayfair, located in what would originally have been a Muse area, behind buildings facing onto Grosvenor Street. Located in a conservation area, the design of the building was very much dictated by Town Planning requirements, which resulted in the retention of the facades of some of…
CIPD Headquarters, Wimbledon
The headquarters building for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development was the result of an owner occupier development funded largely by the sale of their previously occupied site on Wimbledon Common for high end residential development. The CIPD headquarters was conceived as a low energy building in which the building envelope was designed to…
ST Enoch Centre, Glasgow
The St Enoch Centre is an award-winning shopping centre close to Argyll Street and also fronting onto St Enoch Square in Glasgow’s central shopping area. The building was conceived as a large glass enclosure with a long-span structure that would allow change to occur inside over time to respond to the ever-changing brief for shopping…
41 Lothbury, City of London
41 Lothbury is a building in the centre of the City of London and its principal facade faces the Bank of England across Lothbury. The existing building was a competition winning design that was built out in phases during the interwar years of the 20th century. It was built as a bank headquarter building and…
Minster Court, City of London
Minster Court was, at the time its design, the largest single development site in the city of London. The site had been assembled by the Prudential and it was intended to develop it was just short of 1,000,000 ft.². Many configurations were explored for the office buildings in the final scheme comprised three buildings each…
Tower 42, City of London
Following the terrorist attacks in the city of London in 1992 and 1993, GMW Architects were asked to carry out the reinstatement and refurbishment of the National Westminster Tower. This comprised stripping the tower back to its structure and completely renewing all services and finishes, including completely replacing the cladding to the outside of the…
Zurich House, Portsmouth
During the late 60s the Zurich Insurance company, like some others, decided that they would decentralise their headquarters and move to Portsmouth. GMW architects were commissioned to design the new office building on a rather constrained curving site, the boundary of which was determined by an old Admiralty Railway branch running along the edge of…
STC Office and Production Facility, Foots Cray, Kent
The brief for STC Foots Cray required new facilities to be provided for offices, laboratories and a microchip production building on a congested site that had been developed expediently over a long period of time. It was important to ensure that neither demolition nor building operations disrupt the continuity of existing sensitive manufacturing processes. Located…
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