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The Practice
Eric Parry Architects design and create high-quality, people-focused, sustainable buildings that enhance their surroundings. We listen closely to our clients’ ambitions and needs and collaborate to meet every project’s particular challenges with our most creative and imaginative responses. Architecture should engage with its context and interact with its surroundings to create delight, enjoyment, and well-being for its inhabitants.
We have always taken a holistic, sustainable approach to our work, focusing on the building fabric, site considerations, energy use and green technologies. Longevity is a key factor in achieving genuine sustainability. The social and civic benefits of every scheme are paramount.
We are privileged to have a diverse list of clients that include Adani, Wilmar International, Lodha, Qatari Diar and many other prestigious organisations throughout the World.
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Sustainable by Design
Environmental, social and economic sustainability underpins everything we do as a practice and in every scheme we follow several principles of sustainable design. One is longevity and ensuring our buildings are built to last through attention to detail and the use of high-quality and durable materials.
Another is creating buildings that consume less energy through low and hi-tech technologies such as solar shading, maximising the use of natural light and ventilation, low-energy lighting and highefficiency heat recovery systems.
We also like to consider the embodied carbon of every project and are committed to circular economy principles and re-using and recycling materials as much as possible.
A very important principle for us, and one that has grown in significance over the years, is the health and well-being of building occupants. In all our schemes we ensure that factors such as appropriate occupant density, daylighting and lighting control, indoor air quality and adaptive thermal and acoustic comfort are prioritised and embedded into our design approach from the concept stages. Our buildings are also designed so there is a strong visual connection between internal and outdoor spaces.
Eric Parry Architects
Eric Parry
Principal & Founder
Jin Georgiou Board Director
Brendan Durkin Director
Lee Higson Board Director
Julian Ogiwara Director
Asher Meltzer Associate Director
Paul Barke-Asuni Associate Director
Anil Mistry Associate
Emily Posey Associate
Lewis Benmore Associate
Robert Kennett Board Director
Robert Dawson Director
Justin Sayer Associate Director
Sofia Ferreira Associate Director
Aura Gnerucci Associate
Gary Watkin Associate
Markus Nurkkala Associate
Sven Heimann Associate
Takayuki Nakajima Associate Director
Aya Maeda Associate
Hannah Tourell Associate
Ros Cohen Associate
Tom Sweet Associate
Catharin Knuth Associate
Jonathan Schoening Associate
Rupert Willard Associate
Joanne Gold PA to Principal & The Directors
Emma Shaw Head of People
Robert Hood Practice Manager
Craig Lochhead Quality Manager
Duncan Macdonald & Ben Takacs BIM / CAD Management
Project Administration
Russell Watson Marketing & Bids Lead
Graphic Design & Marketing
Project Architects
Architects Architectural Assistants
Eric Parry Architects is a privately owned limited company. There are seven directors; Eric Parry, the principal and founder, Robert Kennett, Jin Georgiou, Lee Higson, Julian Ogiwara, Brendan Durkin and Robert Dawson.
We are a growing team of 90+ in our office located between The Barbican and OId Street in London EC1. The practice is managed by Robert Hood and our Financial Director is Jin Georgiou. Our Head of People is Emma Shaw.
Reception
Craig Lochhead, as our Quality Manager, ensures our ISO 9001 works across the practice to ensure our continued ISO 9001:2008 accreditation.
To ensure the quality and smooth running we have a robust senior team of experienced architects and managers. This management structure is shown on the organogram above.
Founder & Principal MA (Cantab) MA (RCA) AADipl RIBA
Eric Parry has developed a strong reputation for delivering beautifully crafted and high-quality contemporary buildings that respond to their context. His practice, Eric Parry Architects, is renowned for cultural projects involving sensitive historic buildings such as the restoration of the historic St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in Trafalgar Square and the highly acclaimed new extension for the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath.
The practice is known for several prestigious commercial projects in London’s City and West End including 1 Undershaft which will become the tallest building in the City of London crowning the new cluster of planned skyscrapers in the Square Mile.
The practice’s work also include the RIBA Stirling Prize shortlisted schemes at 30 Finsbury Square and 5 Aldermanbury Square. The successful 8 St James’s Square broke a UK office rent record in 2015.
International projects include the residential schemes Damai Suria in Kuala Lumpur and the Westminster Nanpeidai in Tokyo for Grosvenor.
In addition to his work in architectural practice, Eric Parry serves on the Council of the RA, The Fabric Advisory Committee of Canterbury Cathedral and the Council of the British School at Rome.
He has in the past served on the Arts Council of England’s Visual Arts and Architecture panel, the London Mayor’s Design Advisory Panel and chaired the RIBA Awards Group.
His contribution to Academia includes fourteen years as Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Cambridge and lectureships at the Harvard University Graduate Design School, the Tokyo Institute of Technology and was President of the Architectural Association from 2005 - 2007.
Board Director
Lee studied architecture at The University of North London, under the tutorage of Prof. Florian Beigel and Dr Helen Mallinson and qualified in 1998. He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and is a registered Architect in the UK and Spain. He joined Eric Parry Architects in 2006, was made Director in 2019 and Board Director in 2021.
He is currently leading the high-profile Salisbury Square project in London, a project of national importance for the City of London Corporation which includes a world class fraud and cybercrime courthouse for Ministry of Justice and the new headquarters for the City of London Police and a new office building defining the workspace of the future. The project is on site and to be completed in 2026.
He is also leading the design of the new R&D headquarters building for Adani Wilmar in Shantigram Ahmedabad, India for Adani Real Estate to be completed in 2026.
Lee has led the design of several key projects including.
• The Wilmar International R&D Headquarters in Singapore for Perennial Real Estate
• PWC Corporate Headquarters at One Chamberlain Square, Birmingham for Argent PLC / MEPC.
• The R&D Headquarters Building for The Welding Institute in Cambridge which includes the new post graduate education facility for the National Structural Integrity Research Centre.
• The 12 Acre White City Masterplan for Helical / Aviva Investors
• The 10 Acre Mixed Use site in Accra, Ghana
• 271-unit Apartment Block for the Athletes Village for the London 2012 Olympics for the Olympic Delivery Authority.
• Three residential Blocks in ‘The Heart of Doha’ development in Qatar for Msheireb Properties.
• Vision 2025, Suvretta House Hotel Masterplan in St Moritz, Switzerland
• The Selfridge Hotel Development for Selfridges & Co. in London.
Eric Parry RA Lee HigsonSelected Projects
Eric Parry founded our London studio in 1983, and in 2013 we added our Singapore studio for projects in the Far East. Since its inception, dozens of talented individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds have joined the practice, and we are proud to have accrued a wide, rich and varied range of skills, cultures and experience.
We offer in-house capability for every aspect of a scheme and a wide range of architectural scales. Our expertise covers everything from masterplanning and architecture, to interiors and fitouts; from landscape design schemes to bespoke furniture, ironmongery, carpets and textiles.
Eric Parry maintains a key involvement in all projects, particularly in their design development stages, and under his leadership the practice has developed a reputation for delivering beautifully crafted and well-considered buildings.
We enclose selected examples of our work that we feel will be of interest.
Client: Aroland Holdings Limited
1 Undershaft, London
Eric Parry Architects has unveiled their competition winning design for a new tower within the heart of the City of London. The brief was to deliver an innovative world class building to replace the existing 1960s structure with a simple, elegant sculptural form, diminishing in profile in its upper storeys.
1 Undershaft lies at the heart of the ‘Eastern Cluster’, an area already determined by the City of London Corporation to be suitable for tall buildings.
1 Undershaft will create a place for all who work, visit, or live in London. Central to the proposal is the ambition to create a new public space that can accommodate the increased number of pedestrians and cyclists who will be moving through this part of the City.
London
Rising to a height of 304.94m AOD, the building will crown the cluster of skyscrapers in the square mile.
When constructed, 1 Undershaft will be the tallest building in the City of London.
The public viewing gallery will be the highest in the city. It will be the only public viewing gallery in the City of London to offer a full, unobstructed 360 degree view of the capital.
A landmark headquarters building offering world class laboratories and office space.
Client: Wilmar International Singapore
R&D Headquarters
The building accommodates
and laboratory space for Wilmar’s research & development divisions
Our deisgn combines signature architecture with high quality public realm to create a landmark headquarters building for Wilmar International’s global business. Our proposal provides world class laboratories and office spaces within a landscaped garden setting.
The building is organic in form and is characterised by tiered landscape terraces which provide a garden aspect to each office level. The envelope has ribbons of glass to provide 360 degree views whilst horizontal fins provide solar shading to keep the building cool.
The extensive use of reflective materials both mirror and accentuate the surrounding landscape to provide ‘a workspace within the landscape’. An open ground floor provides a large covered public space with active uses of exhibition centre, auditorium and café which animate the space.
The building is highly sustainable and responds to climate and orientation to maximise the passive effect on reducing heat load and energy usage. It promotes responsible resource stewardship through conservation of water, rainwater harvesting, an integrated greywater system throughout.
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The landscape design promotes biological diversity of ecosystems, habitats and biomes. The tree density of the site was increased by 70%.
Client: Adani Wilmar Singapore
Headquarters Building
The proposal combines signature architecture with generous landscape and public realm.
Following the completion of the R&D Headquarters, Singapore, Eric Parry Architects was commissioned to develop a proposal for a new headquarters building for Adani Wilmar in Shantigram, Ahmedabad, India
The building consists of a multistorey office space, high-end technical laboratories and meeting rooms with public facilities such as an auditorium, café and an exhibition hall at entrance level.
A key design aspiration revolves around landscaped terraces which will provide a garden aspect to each office level. Responding to the tropical climate in India, projecting terracotta fins will provide shade onto the facades reducing solar gain as well as providing protection from the monsoon downpours.
180m tall mixed use development in the heart of Tokyo.
Tokyo
Client: Kyobashi 3-chome East Area Redevelopment Preparatory Association
Kyobashi Tower
The Prime Minister of Japan, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Chuo Ward have approved the Kyobashi 3-chome East Area Urban Redevelopment Project, designating it a special national strategic zone development in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Designed by a collaboration between Eric Parry Architects and NIHON SEKKEI, INC, the Kyobashi 3-Chome project will deliver 164,000 sq m of mixed-use space in a building that sits between the central districts of Kyobashi and Ginza.
The 180 metre-tall building is located at the end of Ginza’s Chuodori shopping street and will act as landmark visible along the length of the avenue. Urban greening on the lower level balconies will complement the vertical gardens of the building opposite to create a “green gateway” between Ginza and the neighbourhood of Kyobashi, an area known for its art galleries and antique shops.
Kyobashi 3-chome is located within walking distance of Tokyo Station, the gateway to the international city of Tokyo. The building will feature direct access to Kyobashi station on the Ginza Line of the Tokyo Metro through its four-storey basement.
The ambitious project will introduce improvements to the public realm for pedestrians that include a connection to the new Tokyo 'Sky Corridor'.
Client: Argent Group plc
4 Pancras Square
The Argent development at King’s Cross is one of the most significant new urban developments in London and one that will receive worldwide attention.
The site is located to the north of the existing King’s Cross railway station, adjacent to St Pancras International Station on brownfield land.
At that time the cast iron gasometer was still located on the site of the proposed Pancras Square and this informed the proposal for an expressed steel frame to this office building.
The building consists of 10 storeys of office above ground floor reception and retail with two floors of basement below and was completed in June 2017.
London
The building consumes 65% less gas and electricity than a typical office building of its scale.
4 Pancras Square was the first UK office building to be awarded BREEAM 2014 ‘Outstanding’ accreditation.
4 Pancras Square is the UK
Headquarters of Universal Music.
The 36-story tall building will be all electric, facilitating net zero carbon in operation.
Client: AXA Real Estate Investment Managers UK Ltd London
50 Fenchurch Street
50 Fenchurch Street is an island site bounded by Fenchurch Street, Mincing Lane, Dunster Court, and Mark Lane. The site is owned by The Clothworkers’ Company.
Apart from the medieval Tower of All Hallows Staining and the subterranean Lambe’s Chapel Crypt, all the buildings were built after 1945. These buildings include the Clothworkers’ Hall, Minster House, 46-50 Fenchurch Street, 51-54 Fenchurch Street and St Olave’s Church Hall.
The proposed 50 Fenchurch Street includes two listed buildings, the Grade I listed Tower of All Hallows Staining and the Grade II listed Lambe’s Chapel Crypt. Neither are currently accessible to the public as they are on private land.
50 Fenchurch Street will provide over 62,000 sq m of flexible office space arranged around a central core. Floor plates vary in size’ to maximise the building’s appeal to a range of City occupiers.
The building design is set to track at NABERS 5*, with a goal to achieve 6* during the detailed design phase.
The building features a pioneering external vertical greening system, the first of its kind in London, to provide tenants with access to nature, promote biodiversity, reduce the urban heat island effect, and incorporates innovative landscape design in a tall urban context.
Client: Generali Real Estate
Fen Court
Fen Court is a building conceived as a development in the tradition of the European city block, rather than that of the signature tall building.
It sets a new street scale for this particular district of the City of London – it is a building that has a presence through a multitude of views, from the distant, to silhouettes seen down the many surrounding lanes and streets that characterise this City as London.
From the taller buildings that are emerging the current roofscape of the city is an unsightly sea of air conditioning plant. This and an absolute need for more sustainable building stock gave rise to the idea of creating a publicly accessible roof garden, accessed from a central court at street level. An enlarged north-south route runs through the building which will radically improve the connection to adjoining public spaces.
London
The building incorporates a unique publicly accesible rooftop garden that offers panoramic views of London.
A new 420,000 sq ft office development for Italy’s largest insurance company Generali
"The delight of the roof garden... Finding oneself among the neighbouring towers and looking out over the skyline of London is both thrilling and fascinating."
Louisa Hutton, Architecture Today
The building offers 150,000 sq ft of office space fitted with floor-to-ceiling glazing and 22,000 sq ft of ground floor restaurant and retail space
Birmingham
Client: Birmingham City Council & Hermes Fund Managers Ltd
1 Chamberlain Square
Eric Parry Architects won a competition in 2014 to design the first building at Paradise. Our proposal at One Chamberlain Square has led to the creation of an exemplar modern commercial building that both reflects and complements the historic civic space in which it is set.
This eight storey, 172,000 sqft office building has retail on the ground floor with office space above.
The whole commercial space was successfully pre-let to international professional services firm PwC.
The flagship commercial building on the western prow of the Goodsyard.
Tokyo
Client: Ballymore Properties Ltd
Hammerson UK Properies plc
The Goodsyard, London
The client is a Joint Venture between Hammerson and Ballymore. Eric Parry Architects has been commissioned to develop a building for Plot 2 of The Bishopsgate Goodsyard masterplan to allow a detailed planning application to be submitted as part of an overall outline Planning Masterplan.
Our building at Plot 2 is the flagship commercial building on the western prow of the Goodsyard delivering approximately 47,000 m² NIA office space and retail uses at ground and the Platform level and is integrated into the heritage-rich, partly-listed world of brick archways, the remains of the Bishopsgate Goodsyard Station. The new building will include 15% affordable office space and 2530% co-working spaces.
The building will deliver approximately 47,000 m² NIA office space and retail uses at ground and the Platform level.
The UK’s first design-reviewed 5.5* NABERS building – a new net zero workplace in Victoria.
Client: Quadrum Global London
11 Belgrave Road
A unanimous resolution to grant planning consent was achieved for 11 Belgrave Road at the Westminster City Council’s Planning Committee held on 3 August 2020.
The project for Quadrum will renew this tired 1950s office building, with the partial reconstruction, new facades, garden courts and roof terraces providing flexible, contemporary workspace at the heart of Pimlico.
A new café and gym/wellness spa will complement the sustainable working environment.
The councillors praised the client’s commitment to consultation with the local community and the quality of the new elevations and urban landscaping.
The project meets the highest sustainability and wellbeing credentials, taking its place as one of the capital’s most sustainable office buildings.
Client: City of London Corporation London
Salisbury Square
The City of London Corporation has identified a unique opportunity to create modern facilities for both the City of London Police and Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) in the heart of the historic Square Mile.
Eric Parry Architect has been commissioned to design and deliver a new, purpose-built 18-courtroom legal facility called the City of London Law Courts and a cutting-edge police head-quarters equipped to amongst other things combat fraud and economic crime across the UK.
Built to exemplar standards when it comes to accessibility and sustainability, the buildings are designed to last for at least 125 years. Salisbury Square will be enlarged and refocused as a gathering point for the development, somewhere people can enjoy.
The placement of buildings and introduction of new routes has been inspired by the ancient City, with passageways and spaces encouraging con-versation and exchange of information. Eric Parry Architects have prioritised the continuation of this tradition and integrated it into a modern development as a vital part of civic life.
The project meets the highest sustainability and wellbeing credentials, taking its place as one of the capital’s most sustainable office buildings.
Built to exemplar standards when it comes to accessibility and sustainability, the buildings are designed to last for at least 125 years.
The Salisbury Square Development will deliver a new, purpose-built 18-courtroom legal facility called the City of London Law Courts and a cutting-edge police head-quarters equipped to combat fraud and economic crime across the UK.
Originally built as the American Embassy, the building was also used as the Canadian High Commission, before a meticulous rebuilding that delivered 44 super-prime homes.
Client: Lodha
1 Grosvenor Square
Following an invited competition, the Lodha Group (a major Indian developer) appointed Eric Parry Architects to lead on the design of their flagship London development at No. 1 Grosvenor Square.
44 super-prime homes are supported by residential amenities that include a three-storey automated underground parking system, a health club and spa with a 25 metre swimming pool and an onsite restaurant.
Following detailed consultations with Westminster City Council and The Grosvenor Estate, Eric Parry Architects developed its solution to keep the significant façades fronting onto Grosvenor Square and Grosvenor Street, while creating a contemporary building that sets a new standard for luxury homes.
Over 4,000 stones and 66 palettes of original bricks were carefully recorded, dismantled and stored at a site in the docklands for the duration of the project
London
95% of homes in the new building have sold, with the penthouse apartment achieving a sale price of £138m in 2020.
Client: Qatari Diar
Chelsea Barracks
Eric Parry Architects have designed 5 new residential buildings across 2 Phases of the masterplan for the redevelopment of the former Chelsea Barracks, a large site on Chelsea Bridge Road, opposite Ranelagh Gardens.
The appearance of each building is informed by the historic character of the area and combined with contemporary detailing. Phase 4 provides 88 residential units, Phase 6 provides 96 units. Phase 4 is currently on site, Phase 6 has been submitted for planning permission.
The proportions of the elevations have been carefully studied and the proposals have a sense of generosity and authority, emphasising the principle of a tripartite order: base, body and top that characterise a tradition of urban architecture.
London
95% of homes in the new building have sold, with the penthouse apartment achieving a sale price of £138m in 2020.
BREEAM Excellent, WELL Gold and WiredScore accreditation.
Client: BioMed Realty Cambridge
Life Science Park
Eric Parry Architect are developing detailed designs following the planning consent granted by South Cambridgeshire District Council earlier this year. The designs provide 368,000 sq ft of flexible lab / office space across five buildings at the Granta Park science park near Great Abingdon on the outskirts of Cambridge.
The five new buildings are targeting a 32% improvement on building regulation guidelines for energy performance and will be designed to meet the thermal standards set by the LETI Climate Emergency Design Guide. In addition they will meet the requirements of BREEAM Excellent, WELL Gold and WiredScore accreditation.
science park
Developed with BioMed Realty, a Blackstone portfolio company, the designs will help meet the urgent demand for Lab space in Cambridge in purpose-built accommodation designed specifically around the needs of post-startup / incubator biotech companies looking for space to scale their operations.
The buildings have been conceived as flexible lab and office buildings designed for both single occupiers and for multiple-lets to post-start-up / incubator life sciences businesses.
368,000 sq ft of flexible lab / office space across five buildings at the Granta Park
The Cambridge Science Cluster is world renowned for research and education and makes an excellent base for multinational innovative companies.
Rochester Innovation Park Design Competition Singapore
Our competition entry focused on creating a venue that can enhance the vibrancy of the onenorth community through a wide range of F&B offerings, a variety of co-work and serviced offices, exquisite hotel rooms and suites of community programs. It spanned an array of properties revoling round an underground auditorium, 'The Oculus' which is set into the hillside.
On the adjacent area of the site sits the 19-storey high rise building, adorned in glazed ceramic fins featuring an integrated sky garden.
Nested within the lush greenery, the proposal integrated sensetively with the existing landscape, saught to improve the connectivity of the space.
Creation of a cohesive ecosystem of learning, working and living.
Client: Helical Bar plc & Aviva Investors
White City Masterplan
Granted planning permission in 2012, Eric Parry Architects designed and masterplanned this ambitious redevelopment of an under-utilised brownfield site in West London. The 12 acre mixed use development is located on the former Dairy Crest site and provides affordable housing, community spaces such as a health centre and music and arts facilities and landscaped public gardens.
The landscape strategy establishes an extensive network of gateways, squares and green spaces that are interlinked by a network of streets. Along with extensive tree planting, this green infrastructure adds to the overall structure of the masterplan by providing locally distinctive neighbourhoods and enhanced streetscapes.
Establishing a flourishing urban quarter that will provide a high quality mixeduse development.
London
Client: Four Season Hotel & Resorts
Four Seasons Hotel Spa
One of the capital’s top 5-star hotels.
Appointed in January 2005, Eric Parry Architects developed a proposal for the extension to the roof to include a new spa, early arrivals suite and gym.
The attic storey also facilitates the rationalisation of existing and redundant plant and accommodate new chillers required to power air-conditioning to all bedrooms.
In addition to providing the vital 5-star services and facilities, the design offers visitors to the spa the opportunity to experience the magnificent rooftop views afforded by the hotel’s position.
London
Located on Hamilton Place, just off Park Lane in London’s exclusive Mayfair district.
The design offers visitors to the spa the opportunity to experience the magnificent rooftop views afforded by the hotel’s position.
The Mandarin Oriental Hotel offers the highest standards of international 5-star hotel accommodation and service.
London
Client: Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
Mandarin Oriental Spa
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The exterior of this truly grand hotel gives way to modern, 21st century design that has delivered a restrained reworking of all 200 bedrooms, corridors, receptions and restaurants, executed in a wonderful merger of the new and original.
The ‘cave-like’ spa constructed beneath the hotel ballroom has provided a reception space, eight treatment rooms, steam rooms, saunas and relaxation rooms. It is a sophisticated synthesis of interior design, with sculptures by Stephen Cox and furniture by the Azumis.
Spa is internationally acknowledged as one of the best facilities of its kind and attracts the most discerning international clientele.
Collaboration
A successful project requires a collaborative and communicative client relationship. We take particular pride in our growing list of repeat clients who value the transparency, openness and creative dialogue we bring to each project.
Depending on the scale of the project, the number of consultants, specialists and stakeholders is larger or smaller. We co-ordinate these cross-disciplinary teams by listening, working together and developing design ideas with dedication and enthusiasm.
Hospitality Clients
Four Season Hotel & Resorts
Hotel Suvretta House
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
Royal Lancaster Hotel
Selfridges Hotel Group
Shiva Hotels
Institutional Clients
City of London Corporation
Great Portland Estates
Royal Academy of Arts
The Crown Estate
The Holburne Museum
The Portman Estate
The Welding Institute
University of Cambridge
University of Kent
University of York
Westminster City Council
Corporate Clients
Adani Real Estate
Argent Group LLP
Aroland Holdings Limited
Aviva Investors Ltd
Berkeley Homes
British Land
Brookfield
Generali Real Estate
Hammerson UK Properties PLC
Hermes Fund Managers Limited
Hines Real Estate
MEPC
Mitsubishi Estates Corporation Ltd
NIHON SEKKEI, INC
Perennial Real Estate
Qatari Diar
Quadrum Global
Scottish Widows plc
Sellar Property Group
Stanhope Real Estate
Wilmar International