“This is a good read for anyone who has run a business over the past 50 years… It is essential reading for anyone thinking of starting a practice, warning you of the stresses you will face and highlighting skills you don’t learn at architecture school: the importance of relationships, of presentations, of public speaking and thought leadership.”
Peter Murray OBE, FRSA Hons, FRIBA
£20
Set chronologically, each chapter captures a different practice location and the subsequent work produced there.
“…there followed in 1986 the principal office of Alliance & Leicester plc. It was a high end conversion that embodied the idea of optimising the potential of an existing building-in this case by transforming an unused basement into high quality conference and dining areas…”
“Then in 1993 the IRA bombed Bishopsgate. I knew the Facilities Manager, Declan Horan, and asked if we could help. We got the job of designing a temporary office for 270 staff and we went on to design the bank’s permanent offices at 1 Knightsbridge overlooking Hyde Park.”