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OVERVIEW

Sir John Tomlinson and the Philharmonia on stage at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, UK

Keith Williams Architects is an RIBA chartered practice working nationally and internationally from its base in London, UK. The firm is one of the UK’s leading specialist designer of public cultural buildings including opera houses, concert halls, theatres and buildings for entertainment and the performing arts and is the recipient of some 40 major design and construction awards for its work.

Our projects include the National Opera House, Ireland, Clare Cultural Centre, Ireland, the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, the Unicorn Theatre London, the Birmingham Rep upgrade, Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre expansion, and proposals for the Staatstheater Karlsruhe, the Musikzentrum, Bochum, Kronberg Music Academy, Komische Oper, Berlin and Frankfurt Youth Theatre all in Germany.

Founded in 2001 by Keith Williams and Richard Brown, Keith Williams Architects is by reputation one of the UK’s leading architectural design practices with a body of work which incorporates a series of exceptional high profile award winning projects for clients in both the private and public sectors.

The multi-award winning firm works in the UK and internationally across a broad range of projects including cultural, residential, commercial buildings as well as urban design, place making and city masterplanning.

Keith Williams Architects is particularly noted as a leading specialist architect for theatre, opera, music and performing arts buildings as well as museum, art gallery, library, and civic buildings.

The firm’s 40 major design and construction awards include inter alia the 2017 RIAI Triennial Gold Medal (shortlisted), two nominations for the Stirling Prize, twice winners of the BD Public Building Architect of the Year Award, twice recipient of the Chicago Athenaeum Prize as well as having been awarded multiple RIBA, Civic Trust and RIAI awards.

Based in the company’s London studio, Keith Williams as founder and director of design, personally initiates and oversees the design of all the firm’s major projects, with the support of fellow director, Richard Brown, and key architectural staff.

Each new project is developed in close consultation with the firm’s clients, ensuring that the buildings are as closely tailored to client need, and to the highest possible quality that project budgets can provide. The architectural team places great emphasis on effective project management, coordination and cost control.

Name

Keith Williams Architects Limited

Chartered Status

Keith Williams Architects is an RIBA Chartered Architectural Practice

Company Registration

Keith Williams Architects Ltd is registered in the UK No 4136532

VAT No

769 1176 00

Director of Design

Keith R Williams BA(Hons) DipArch(Hons) FRIBA MRIAI FRSA

ARB Reg No 050413K

Technical Director

Richard Brown BA(Hons) DipArch RIBA RIAI

ARB Reg No 058927F

CASE STUDIES

PERFORMING ARTS & MUSIC

MARLOWE THEATRE CANTERBURY UK

RIBA AWARD

CIVIC TRUST AWARD

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE AWARD

PERFORMING ARTS & MUSIC

MARLOWE THEATRE CANTERBURY UK

Named after Christopher Marlowe, Canterbury’s famous 16th century playwright, a contemporary of Shakespeare, the new 4,850m2 the Marlowe Theatre has been built in the heart of the city’s historic core. Constructed on the site of the old Marlowe Theatre which was largely demolished, the new building now occupies an expanded plot which connects it to the banks of the River Stour.

The Marlowe contains a 1,200 seat main auditorium, flytower and orchestra pit, a 150 seat second space, cafés and bars, rehearsal and backstage facilities.

The building rises in layers from the existing buildings along the Friars, the street on which the Marlowe sits, to the pinnacle of the remodelled flytower. An 8m high, reconstructed stone colonnade enwraps the glass foyer, mediating between the necessarily large components such as the main auditorium and flytower, and the 2 and 3 storey historic buildings nearby.

The triple level foyer unites all public spaces and auditoria. It appears as a crystal ribbon by day transforming into a blade of light by night, an open,

inviting place within the city. The flytower’s surfaces are clad in a stainless steel mesh skin, dematerialising the flytower’s form, and causing its surfaces to subtly reflect the hues of the sky. The second auditorium is lifted 5.5m above entrance level, to allow the foyer to slide beneath maintaining visual connection with the river. The second auditorium’s external skin is clad in pre-oxidised copper to form a contextual connection with the red/brown roofscape of the city.

Construction began May 2009 on a 2 year programme to completion and during the redevelopment the Marlowe operated seasonally from a huge temporary tented structure on the edge of the city centre.

The Marlowe was opened by HRH The Earl of Wessex KG, GCVO on 4th October 2011.

The project has proven immensely successful and soon after its first 5 years of operation the Marlowe had sold its 2 millionth ticket making it one of the UK’s most successful regional theatres.

PERFORMING ARTS & MUSIC

MARLOWE THEATRE CANTERBURY UK

The Marlowe has regenerated a city quarter that had been visibly failing adding £42m per annum in economic benefit to the local economy. By its 10th anniversary 3.2 million tickets had been sold for performances at the Marlowe, playing to near capacity audiences for much of the year. It is one of the UK’s most successful regional performing arts venues, demonstrating both commercial and cultural sustainability.

Project Title : Marlowe Theatre

Client : Canterbury City Council

Design Programme : May 2007 - April 2009

Construction Programme : May 2009 - Oct 2011

Cost : £22.6 m/£31.2m at 2023 index

Area : 4,850 m2

The project celebrated for its world class acoustic plays annual host to Glyndebourne Touring Opera and its resident orchestra the Philharmonia, one of the world’s great orchestras.

PERFORMING ARTS & MUSIC

NATIONAL OPERA HOUSE WEXFORD IRELAND

RIAI Cultural Building of the Year

RIAI TRIENNIAL GOLD MEDAL (Shortlisted)

PERFORMING ARTS & MUSIC

PERFORMING ARTS & MUSIC

NATIONAL OPERA HOUSE WEXFORD IRELAND

The new Wexford Opera House has been constructed in the heart of the medieval maritime town, on the site of the Festival’s former theatre. It contains the new main opera house (780 seats) completely lined in North American black walnut, full flytower and backstage and a transformable second space of 175 seats, together with rehearsal, production facilities, bars, café and foyer spaces.

Close up, the new building has retained the extraordinary element of surprise and secrecy so characteristic of the old Theatre Royal by re-integrating itself into the historic fabric of Wexford’s medieval centre behind reinstated terraced buildings.

Internally the main auditorium, inspired both by the form of a cello and the curves of a traditional horseshoe-form operatic space, has been lined in black American walnut whilst the seating has been finished in pale purple leather giving a rich sense of material quality to its contemporary design. The acoustical quality is widely acknowledged as world class.

The new building operates as a year round arts venue, for both Wexford Opera Festival productions and visiting companies.

The multi-award winning building was officially opened by Brian Cowen TD An Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister), whilst the first opera took place on 16 October 2008 with a performance of Rimsky-Korsakoff’s Snegourchka (the Snow Maiden).

In 2014, the building was officially designated as Ireland’s National Opera House by the Irish Government.

It is Ireland’s most important venue for the performing arts and is host to Wexford Festival Opera which won the World’s Best Opera Festival Award at the International Opera Awards 2017.

Main Auditorium : 750 - 866 seats with full orchestra pit (2 pit lifts)

Second Auditorium : 170 seats fully retractable (motorised)

Project Title : National Opera House

Client : Wexford festival Opera

Design Programme : Sept 2005 - Oct 2006

Construction Programme : Nov 2006 - Sept 2008

Cost : €33 million/ €51.5m at 2023 index

Area : 7,235 m2

PERFORMING ARTS & MUSIC

Shortlisted for the Stirling Prize 2005

PERFORMING ARTS & MUSIC

UNICORN THEATRE, LONDON

Shortlisted for the Stirling Prize 2005

A unique arts project, won in European wide competition, was shortlisted for the 2006 Stirling Prize (penultimate round) and went on to win a great many international awards.. The new build scheme which has been completed, provides a 300 seat theatre, a theatre studio, education, teaching and rehearsal spaces, public café, and is the most far reaching child focussed educative and theatrical cultural institution in the UK. The Theatre opened to huge acclaim on 1 December 2005, and has featured extensively in the international press.

Project Title : Unicorn Theatre

Client : Unicorn Children’s Centre Ltd

Programme : 2003 - 2005

Budget : £10m / £16.92 m at 2023 index

Area : 3,650m2

PERFORMING ARTS & MUSIC

NEW CONCERT HALL BOCHUM, GERMANY PERFORMING ARTS BUILDING

PERFORMING ARTS & MUSIC

NEW CONCERT HALL BOCHUM, GERMANY PERFORMING ARTS BUILDING

Project Title : New Concert Hall-Bochum

Client : Stadt Bochum

Programme : 2012

Area : 5,000 m2

Budget : €21,000,000

KWA were invited by Bochum City Council to prepare proposals for a new concert venue (the Musikzentrum) opposite the city’s historic Marienkirche (church).

Our project creates a new set piece cultural building, the Musikzentrum, and also establishes an important new public square between it and the Marienkirche. The Musikzentrum complex is intended to form a vibrant new urban place, creating a new destination in the cityscape, whilst also connecting to the shops and life of the city’s Bermudadreieck social area.

The Musikzentrum contains a 900 seat Concert Hall and a 250 seat Multi Purpose Space + Recital Hall, foyers, rehearsal, back stage and front of house facilities.

KARLSRUHE STAATSTHEATRE, KARLSRUHE, GERMANY PERFORMING ARTS & MUSIC

CULTURAL BUILDING

Opened in 1975, the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe is one of the most successful opera and theatre halls in Germany. But by 2015 its built fabric, as well as facilities for audience and the near 700 staff who work in the building, all required substantial expansion and upgrade to be fit for the 21st century.

Keith Williams Architects was invited by the Staatstheater to take part in a limited international design competition for the building’s upgrade, remodelling and expansion. The shortlist included leading international architects such as Snøhetta, Dominique Perrault, GMP International, Rudy Ricciotti and Delugan & Meissl alongside Keith Williams Architects. The Staatstheater by the architect Helmut Bätzner, is one of the largest multi-section theatres in the world. Operating as a Dreisparten house, it stages the three performance genres of music theatre, ballet and theatre. Its central position in Karlsruhe directly at the intersection of the city’s two main arteries Kriegsstraße and Ettlinger straße, alongside its singular appearance further underlined the importance of this cultural building.

The architecture of the existing 20,000m2 building is expressionistic, composed as a series of strata culminating in the sloped form of the flytower, epitomises the aesthetic of mid-1970s major cultural buildings. Internally the main 1000 seat theatre is a dramatic asymmetric space and the foyers combine as a series of interlocked spaces and decks which create a complex layered landscape through which the multiple stair clusters are threaded.

Keith Williams’ premiated designs worked with the Staatstheater‘s spirit, form and geometry, adding new wings to reintegrate it more appropriately with the city fabric whilst maintaining the predominant character and expression of the original building. The design tasks were many and complex, centring on the refurbishment and remodelling of the existing main auditorium, the addition of new second theatre of 400 seats a new studio theatre and youth theatre each of 150 seats, an orchestral recital hall alongside practice/rehearsal studios, new workshops, rehearsal spaces, and a major upgrade of back of house facilities. Front of house, the project involved the expansion and modernization of the main public facilities including the enormously complex foyer spaces which were laid out over 17 different floor levels.

KWA’s designs established a masterplan, which greatly improved the relationship between the theatre, its audience, their arrival and the surrounding city spaces, themselves in the process of significant replanning and upgrading by the city authorities. The designs radically transformed the architecture and greatly expanded the facilities of the existing building, to ensure that the Staatstheater would become a dynamic cultural building repurposed for the 21st century.

Client = Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

Project Budget = €125 million.

Total Building Area = 30,700 m2

MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

LLOYDMINSTER SCIENCE + CULTURAL CENTRE, ALBERTA, CANADA

The new Lloydminster Cultural & Science Centre (LCSC), is the first collaboration between Keith Williams Architects and S2 Architecture of Calgary.

Lloydminster, located in the open prairies of Western Canada, straddles two provinces (Alberta and Saskatchewan), and is the nation’s only border city. The city’s mandate was to create a timeless iconic Canadian museum to international curatorial standards, which spoke not only to the city’s Canadian values but was also deeply rooted in a modern prairie aesthetic.

Designed to be realised in a series of phases and commissioned to replace the outdated existing centre, this flagship cultural project builds upon the City’s vision for its growth and future, with a new 21st century building, that will welcome all peoples and all creeds.

The horizontality of the building’s silhouette, form and composition, acknowledges the immediate context of Lloydminster’s strip pattern development, while the new enclosing landscape refers to the typology of the sheltering tree belts commonly seen in traditional settlements of the surrounding areas.

The LCSC, potentially incorporating the City’s Regional Archive and Public Library, is designed to be open to all for participation in community, arts & cultural activities, celebration & hosting of events, learning & research. Important collections from the existing museum

notably the Imhoff paintings and the Larsen and Fuchs collections will be displayed in new state of the art facilities.

The gallery spaces are largely north lit, from clerestory lighting, whereas the library design promises a building that is light, open, transparent and filled with activity.

Most elements of the project, for optimum functionality, are located at entrance level, therefore creating a large building footprint. Light has been carried deep into the heart of the public spaces, through the foyer and 3 courtyards, to create key orientation points within the building’s plan.

Heavily insulated to deal with Western Canada’s climatic extremes, and clad in Tyndall limestone, a material indigenous to Manitoba, the building’s materiality refers back to the geology of Western Canada, and is the traditional material used on some of Canada’s best public architecture.

Though international in its conception, KWA/S2 led the programming, planning and design phases, working closely with the City Administration, citizens of Lloydminster and the many and varied stakeholders to create a quintessentially Canadian museum.

client : city of lloydminster

project title : LCSC

structural engineers : read jones christoffersen mechanical engineering : smith & andersen electrical engineering : smp engineering landscape architects : urban systems

area

museum : 7,318m2

library : 2,834m2

total : 10,500m2

cost : C$45m

MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

LUAN GALLERY, COUNTY WESTMEATH, IRELAND

The Luan Gallery is Athlone’s new 575m2 museum for contemporary art. It is located on a spectacular site by the town’s historic bridge, castle and the church of St Peter & St Paul.

The project involved the adaptation of the historic 1897 Father Matthew Hall into a new gallery, the addition of new build wing to provide temporary white box gallery spaces, and a river gallery overlooking the Shannon.

Originally built to designs by William Tanner the 1897, the Father Mathew Hall was commissioned as a temperance hall. It was hoped through providing a centre offering recreational facilities and a temperance café that workers from the nearby woollen mills would eschew the public house and remain sober. Records do not testify as to whether or not this ambition was successful.

Subsequently, however, the hall became a concert venue, and then in 1947 was handed over to Athlone Town Council, the upper floor becoming the town hall until 1949 when a branch library opened on the ground floor.

In 1980 the entire building was renovated and re-opened as a library, but had been vacant since 2004 when the library relocated to the new Civic Centre also designed by Keith Williams Architects.

This project has radically altered the Father Matthew Hall. The accretions added over time have been swept away leaving the core form intact, and the elevations modified by the introduction of new large glazed panels opening up the building to the river and the Shannon Bridge. The new wing has provided contemporary gallery space with black out capabilities to enable multi-use gallery, lecture theatre/ cinema for film exhibitions, meeting space for literature, music, drama workshops, and digital art exhibitions.

The two galleries are linked by a glazed entrance from the main road, and by a linear river gallery facing the Shannon.

MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

LUAN GALLERY, COUNTY WESTMEATH, IRELAND

Client : Athlone Town &

Area : 575m2

Budget : €3.4 million

Programme : 2005-2012

The palette of materials for the new gallery wing is limited to limestone and zinc. Limestone as a building material has a history of use in public buildings in Ireland, and here has been laid in random cut horizontal strips of varying widths, smooth for the upper gallery and rough cut for the plinth, asserting the contemporary nature of the new wing. Zinc clad roof lanterns have been set back from the parapet wall to centralise daylight penetrating into the gallery.

The Father Matthew Hall has been re-rendered and the roof replaced with a new structure and natural slate tiles.

The Luan Gallery was established to promote a dynamic contemporary visual arts programme of both established and emerging artists. It has already developed strong links with Dublin’s Irish Museum of Modern Art enabling major contemporary art to reach the Midlands.

The Luan is Keith Williams’ third project in Athlone, having earlier completed the Civic Offices & Library 2001-2005, and the Army Memorial 2008 – 2009.

The Luan was formally opened on 29 November 2012 by Jimmy Deenihan TD Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

Westmeath County Councils

MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

THE NOVIUM MUSEUM, CHICHESTER, WEST SUSSEX

MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

THE NOVIUM MUSEUM, CHICHESTER, WEST SUSSEX

The Novium Museum in Chichester opened to the public 8 July 2012, is the culmination of a 10 year endeavour by the Council, to replace the city’s former museum, with a new building that would more effectively display the breadth of its collection. Designed by Keith Williams Architects after winning the 2007 RIBA design competition, the Novium is located in Tower Street in line sight of the city’s cathedral. At 1,300 m2 is 21/2 times larger than its predecessor; a small museum housed within a cellular 18th Century building elsewhere in the city.

The unique aspect of the site, a former car park, centred on substantial archaeological remains of a series of Roman baths, which were discovered in the 1970s beneath the ground surfaces. The baths, part of Roman Chichester (Noviomagnus Reginorum) date from the Flavian period (1st Century AD) and the fragments of the hypocaust are the most substantial Roman extant remains within the city walls. The new museum spans the hypocaust, which have been incorporated in-situ into the main entrance gallery as a permanent exhibit and an intrinsic part of a museum.

The Museum contains galleries over a further two floors, which have been designed to be flexible allowing both permanent and temporary exhibition, and education spaces, restoration, research and staff areas.

The Museum has over 1,000 geological specimens (primarily fossils), 8,500 social history artefacts and items of ephemera, 3,600+ photographs and in excess of 300,000 archaeological finds, describing the story of Chichester District from geological times onwards. Elements of these are displayed in the galleries a changing museological programme.

The Novium occurs at precisely the point that historic buildings stop and the grain of the city changes fundamentally. The architectural expression of the museum responds to that contextual shift in both its materiality of pale cast stone surfaces which echo the colour hues of the city’s primary buildings the cathedral, market cross and cathedral tower, and the formal composition which establishes a clearly contemporary architectural outcome.

Project Title : The Novium

Client : Wexford festival Opera

Design Programme : March 2007 - April 2010

Construction Programme : Apr 2010 - Jul 2012

Construction cost : £4.035m// £5.965 m at 2023 index

Area : 1,100 m2

Roman archaeology at the Novium Museum

MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

MOESGARD MUSEUM OF ETHNOLOGY, MOESGARD, DENMARK

INVITED INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Keith Williams Architects was invited to prepare designs for the new 15,500m2 Moesgård Museum of Cultural History near Århus in Denmark, in a project jointly promoted by the Museum and the University of Århus.

The 7 competitors involved the elite of world architecture including Tadao Ando, Steven Holl, Henning Larsen, Tod Williams and Billy Tsien alongside Keith Williams Architects. The site was located on a hill within the Moesgård Estate, a former 18th century manor house with extensive land bordering the sea at the Bay of Århus. The manor house is home to an important ethnography museum and research base and the competition brief asked for a new stand alone museum to operate alongside this historic estate buildings. Keith Williams’ proposals sited the new museum on a natural plateau, to gain the best views across the manor house, its landscape and the sea. As a result the form of the new museum featured prominently in the skyline, appearing as an acropolis, emerging from the undulating landscape.

The designs envisaged a variety of exemplary flexible galleries and exhibition spaces principally Pre-Historic and Medieval Denmark Galleries, Arabian Gulf Galleries, Ethnographic Exhibition Spaces, and Temporary Exhibition Galleries in an interior which contained a rich series of noble, flexible and beautiful spaces.

The estate grounds contain buildings and structures of historic human activity.

The new museum was therefore seen as a rich repository of history and artefact, in context with the wider landscape, and as one part of a broader journey

that connects the new museum, the 18th century manor house, the formal garden and the woods surrounding a restored water mill, as a series of components within a single uniting landscape. The plan layout of the museum complex within the proposals follows the elegant simplicity of the Moesgård manor and its outbuildings, which are formed from an architecture of linear strips which though axial about the original main house, are asymmetrically disposed upon the site.

The new museums’s western facades were to be clad in red/brown brick echoing the materiality of the manor house and supporting buildings, whilst the central section was to be clad in reconstructed stone panels. The cranked plinth was to be made from rough limestone blocks anchoring the building to the ground, whilst the cantilevering bar was topped with glazed pavilions housing the main administration and education facilities.

The use of materials reinforced the gradation of architectural form, from the hard western edge through to the softening of the architectural form as it dissolved into the landscape at its eastern flank toward the sea.

Project Title : Moesgård Museum of Ethnology

Client : Moesgård Museum

Area : 15,000 m2

Construction Budget : €44.26 million

CIVIC & PUBLIC

ATHLONE CIVIC OFFICES & LIBRARY, CO WESTMEATH, IRELAND RIAI SUSTAINABLE BUILDING OF THE YEAR 2005

CIVIC & PUBLIC

ATHLONE CIVIC OFFICES & LIBRARY, CO WESTMEATH, IRELAND

RIAI SUSTAINABLE BUILDING OF THE YEAR 2005

Athlone Civic Centre houses the town library, the civic chamber, administrative offices and a one stop shop giving the Council a single accessible point of contact with the public for all of its services.

The project’s site is in the eastern (Leinster/Westmeath) quarter of Athlone, replacing the former council offices, and surrounding industrial premises. The civic centre sits immediately north of the gothic St Mary’s Church with its adjacent Jacobean Tower. It faces St Mary’s church across Keith Williams’ new town square toward Church Street, Athlone’s historic main artery which leads to the River Shannon.

The building is organised formally using four prime compositional elements. The huge toplit public entrance hall, from which access to all elements of the building can be gained, is immediately legible from the public square. It contains the ceremonial stair to the debating chamber and is the key organising space within the building. Immediately to its right when viewed from the new square is the one stop shop with debating chamber above. To the left are two bar-like forms, the lower of the two containing the double height library, and the upper containing the administrative offices on two levels. For the most part, the project is naturally ventilated to provide the necessary cooling to most of the office and library spaces, whilst reconstructed stone louvres to the south elevation both reinforce the architectural language

Project Title : Athlone Civic Offices & Public Library

Client : Athlone Town Council & Westmeath County Council

Design Programme : Nov 2000 - Oct 2002

Construction Programme : Nov 2002 - Sept 2004

Official Opening : May 2005

Budget : €15.6m/ €25.4m at 2023 index

Area : 4,200m2

and provide a degree of solar shading during summer thereby allowing the building to have a relatively light energy requirement.

The civic centre has been built from pale honed reconstructed stone echoing Athlone’s major stone built public structures, the Castle, the neo-baroque Church of St Peter & St Paul (1937), and Shannon Bridge. Each civic structure, despite being built at very different times in different architectural styles for very different purposes, exhibits a solid formal consistency which distinguishes it from the traditional rough stucco natural pitched slate roofed architecture of the town. The designs for the civic centre follow that developmental pattern.

Remnants of the former town wall and bastion dating from the 17th century were identified during site investigation, and were restored and integrated into the construction of the new town square.

The project involved the Williams office at every design level from the strategic driver of the urban proposition through to the minutiae of the interior. The firm designed the bespoke joinery for the council chamber, created a new design for the public benches for the civic square, and designed and patented a range of interior door furniture, the Parallel Range, specifically for the project.

CIVIC & PUBLIC

CLONES LIBRARY & COUNTY HQ, CO. MONAGHAN, IRELAND LIBRARY BUILDING

CIVIC & PUBLIC

CLONES LIBRARY & COUNTY HQ, CO. MONAGHAN, IRELAND

LIBRARY BUILDING

The new library building is the Council’s flagship project for the town with the public sector leading the town’s regeneration with a new branch library and county library administrative headquarters. It comprises a branch library and local history collection, serving Clones and its environs, and an administrative headquarters for the County Library Service, incorporating book processing, and dispatch facilities and back stock storage facilities.

The main library is a double height volume with punched windows offering direct views over the new library forecourt and the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart to the north. A trabeated concrete roof (a classic Williams’ motif), incorporating large scaled roof light slots, provides daylight into the heart of the plan. Spaces for exhibition, local history and outreach meetings are all readily visible to the visitor, in adjacent single volume spaces.

The building has been organised north-south with a new public square enwrapping the building to the west and south from where new links to Fermanagh Street, the town’s steeply inclined main street, have been formed. It’s linear composition is a response to the fractured urban grain of the immediate built surroundings, which historically have developed northwards from Fermanagh Street as a series of backland strips reaching out to the bounding road, 98 Avenue.

The upper part of the building which takes the form of an L shaped bar, contains the county library headquarters function, and projects over the pavement on 98 Avenue, marking the presence of the new civic building from the north. The main entrance to the library is signified by a cantilevered cubic form, which projects into the main square and contains the library executive offices.

It is expected to develop as part of the local community and become integrated into the broad area of on-going learning, self-learning, adult literacy, creative writing workshops, and activities for children. The new library therefore has been designed to be of sufficient size and have the necessary facilities in place to cater for the future needs of the expected growth of the town and the region, which it serves.

The building is clad in off white honed aggregate reconstructed stone panels, which give an appropriate civic dignity to the architectural expression, and has already become a key landmark in the town.

Project Title : Clones Library and County HQ

Client : Monaghan County Council

Programme : 2005 - 2009

Area : 1,500m2

Budget : €4.45m/€7.02m at 2023 index

CIVIC & PUBLIC

CLARE COUNTY LIBRARY, IRELAND LIBRARY + ART GALLERY BUILDING

Clare County Library & Art Gallery (under construction December 2023)

CIVIC & PUBLIC

CLARE COUNTY LIBRARY, IRELAND

LIBRARY + ART GALLERY BUILDING

The new Clare County Library, designed by Keith Williams Architects in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland was granted planning consent in February 2018.

The new 2,300m2 project for client Clare County Council, has been conceived as a new cultural hub for the town and the region. It will abut the town’s existing Glór Theatre (2001) adding the new Clare County Library and a small contemporary Art Gallery. When complete the library, theatre and art gallery will be interlinked and the new main entrance will be formed from a full height colonnaded portico to draw the eye to toward this new portal to the literary, visual and performing arts contained within.

The form of the new building is in part defined by a 10m high sinuous pre-cast masonry wall which will provide the outer skin to the library and art gallery creating a new civic frontage for this new cultural building complex. Rooflights and sidelight glazed slots bring daylight into the heart of the plan, whilst “incident windows” connect the interior with the exterior and offer views to key points within Ennis. The administrative offices for the county library will sit above the double height main library space in a simple, rectangular form.

The exterior facades will be largely formed from pale pre-cast masonry sit upon a profiled base (ground level) storey of vertical masonry ribs to create strong rhythm on the façade. Contrasting glazed panels with metallic bronze powder coated aluminium frames give accent, contrast and highlight.

The building will open mid 2024.

The supporting design team includes Arup, AECOM, axis consulting engineers and OLM Consultancy.

Project Title : Clare County Library & Art Gallery

Client : Clare County Council

Programme : 2020-2021

Area : 2,321m2

Budget : €11.175m

CLIMATIC TOWER & CONCERT HALL

A RESEARCH PROJECT FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE EMERGENCY

CLIMATIC TOWER & CONCERT HALL

A RESEARCH PROJECT FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE EMERGENCY

Facts & Figures

• Multi-use tower

CLIMATIC TOWER & CONCERT HALL

• Height : 240m

• Storeys : 50+

• Area : 125,000m2

• Offices : 50,000 m2

• 5* Hotel : 200+ bedrooms

• Apartments : 200 apartments

• Conference/Cultural

• Retail/f&b spaces

Public Realm

• Public realm at top

• Public realm at ground level

A RESEARCH PROJECT FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE EMERGENCY

• Centralised connections to transport infrastructure

The Climatic Tower is a research project conceived as a reaction to the climate change emergency.

As a guiding principle, Keith Williams Architects have for 20 years, embodied sustainability and low energy principles as a fundamental element in the conception of all our buildings.

The Climate Change Emergency has however changed the landscape dramatically.

Our proposals for the Climatic Tower, a 50 storey 125,000m2 mixed-use high- rise, envisage the ongoing densification of our cities as populations continue to grow, but designed with a fundamental emphasis on sustainability, net-zero carbon, the quality of the public and communal realms, and the health and well-being of its occupants.

Travelling the world we became appalled at the wanton energy consumption in so many environmentally disastrous tall buildings.

Huge buildings that took little account of their location or orientation, were often clad in glass skins and relied on energy hungry mechanical plant to make the uninhabitable….. habitable.

Such buildings are unviable and will likely become “stranded assets” both culturally and financially.

Initially developed with input from ARUP, the Climatic Tower does not have all the answers but it does set out many important principles and can be seen as a pathfinder toward a new lower carbon more sustainable way of making large scale urban buildings.

Z Section atria reorganise conventional planning to deliver natural ventilation deep into the building. Triple height gardens punctuate the facades bringing daylight and vegetation deep into the plan – greening the tower and contributing to experience, health and well-being of the occupants.

Engagement with the public realm at the base includes new cultural facilities and transport hub interconnectivity, centralising the tower within urban transport infrastructure.

The principles in the Climatic Tower apply to major buildings wherever they are located although their design will adapt to the prevailing climate and latitude.

The Climatic Tower offers challenges to clients, architects and engineers to radically recast their thinking so that the next generation of buildings sit more lightly on the planet and come as close to net-zero carbon as is possible.

AWARDS

AWARDS

SELECTED AWARDS AND COMMENDATIONS

2022

Architecture Today Awards

Unicorn Theatre Buildings that stand the test of time Finalist (Result Pending)

2017

RIAI Triennial Gold Medal National Opera House : (period 2007-2009) Shortlisted

2014

RIBA National Award The Novium : Award Winner

RIBA South East Regional Award The Novium : Award Winner

Civic Trust Award

2013

RIAI Award Best Cultural Building

Luan Gallery, Athlone, Ireland Award Winner

Luan Gallery, Athlone, Ireland Award Winner

Civic Trust : Michael Middleton Special Award The Novium : Award Winner

Civic Trust Award The Novium : Award Winner

Civic Trust Award Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Award Winner

RICS Awards : South East Tourism & Leisure Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Award Winner

RICS Awards : South East Project of the Year Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Award Winner

RICS Awards : South East Community Benefit The Novium : Award Winner

Structural Steel Design Awards Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Commendation

2012

BD Public Building Architect of the Year Finalist

British Construction Industry Awards Marlowe Theatre : Shortlisted Building Project of the Year (£3m - £50m)

British Construction Industry Awards Marlowe Theatre : Shortlisted Prime Minister’s Award

East Kent People’s Award

Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Award Winner

The Cultural Landscape Award Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury (Canterbury Culture Awards) Award Winner

RIBA Award

2010

Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Award Winner

AIA Excellence in Architecture Wexford Opera House Award Winner

Civic Trust Award for Outstanding Contribution Wexford Opera House Award Winner

2009

RIAI Cultural Building of the Year

RIBA Awards 2009

Irish Times Special Jury Award

2008

OPUS Awards

Wexford Opera House Award Winner

Wexford Opera House Award Winner

Wexford Opera House Award Winner

Wexford Opera House Award Winner

BD Public Building Architect of the Year Keith Williams Architects Award Winner

Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Prize Unicorn Theatre International Award Winner

DIRECTOR’S

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SENIOR STAFF CVS

+ COMPANY STRUCTURE

Keith R Williams FRIBA MRIAI FRSA

founder + design director

Education

BA(Hons) Architecture 1979

Post Graduate Diploma in Architecture Dip Arch (Hons) 1982

RIBA Part III 1983

Institute

Kingston School of Architecture Greenwich University

Professional Registration

FRIBA RIAI ARB

Memberships + Honorifics

Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland

Architects Registration Board

Chair : Civic Trust National Awards Panel

Co-Chair : Design South-East Review Panel

Former Member of the National Design Review Panel at CABE

Chair : Lewisham Design Review Panel

Honorary Visiting Professor of Architecture, Zhengzhou University, China

Key Role

Keith, with 35 years experience as an architect, is an outstanding and exceptionally experienced designer of buildings and interiors for the performing arts.

As director of design he is actively involved in the design, planning and execution of each of the firm’s projects. Projects highlighted are those referenced where Keith was director of design and in overall charge of the projects from inception to completion.

Specialist Skills

He is a leading designer of high profile public cultural buildings, in particular highly complex projects including theatres, concert halls, opera houses, museums, and art galleries, libraries and masterplans for universities. He is an established urban designer and committed to sustainability in architecture. His outstanding architectural skill, which has brought him 40 major design awards, is supported by his ability to present projects clearly and effectively to clients, statutory authorities and the public.

He is extremely experienced in working with complex client organisations, project steering groups, public sector clients, boards of trustees, and in undertaking complex consultation procedures.

He has worked on many projects with sensitive historic contexts including 3 UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Relevant project experience includes:

CV

New Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, UK + Expansion Project Design Director for the Marlowe Theatre and the more recent Expansion Project Feasibility Study. The 4,850m2 multi-award winning Marlowe Theatre incorporates a 1,200 seat main Auditorium, 150 seat second space, with associated bars, cafe, rehearsal and backstage facilities. The main auditorium has an exceptional acoustic for voice and music.

Marlowe Theatre construction cost £23.9m at Q2 2023

Marlowe Expansion Project

Design Director for the Marlowe Expansion Project 2,600m2 with an estimated construction cost £15m at Q4 2022

National Opera House, Wexford, Ireland

Design Director for Ireland’s multi-award winning National Opera House. The project comprised 7,235m2 of spatially complex accommodation over six levels around main auditorium on a very tight site. Exceptionally high standards of detail and finish to a tight timescale and budget were achieved. The main auditorium’s acoustic is world class and the building has been described as one of the world’s greatest small opera houses. Dates 2005-2009. Construction cost £43.8m at Q2 2023.

Unicorn Theatre, London,UK

Design Director for the multi-award winning Unicorn Theatre for children and young people located on Tooley Street near London Bridge and the River Thames. The Unicorn until its opening in 2005, was the only new central London theatre to be built since the National in 1976. It houses the 320 seat Weston Theatre, the Clore Studio theatre, education, teaching and rehearsal spaces, public foyer and café, and is the most far reaching child focussed educative and theatrical institution in the UK. Area: 3,650m2

Dates: 2001 - 2005 Construction Cost : £15.58m at Q2 2023.

Birmingham Rep, Birmingham, UK

Design Director for the project which included the complete reshaping of the 824 seat auditorium, stage and flying equipment, and environmental services. Keith devised an overall project for a 13,000m2 redevelopment of the existing building which included in addition to the remodelled auditorium, the provision of a new variable form 250 – 350 seat second space, the reorganisation of back of house facilities and a major new civic scale front of house re-establishing the REP’s urban presence within the city.

Karlsruhe Staatstheater, Germany

Project Director for the invited international design competition for the building’s upgrade, remodelling and expansion. The design tasks were many and complex, centring on the refurbishment and remodelling of the existing main auditorium, the addition of new second theatre of 400 seats a new studio theatre and youth theatre each of 150 seats, an orchestral recital hall alongside practice/rehearsal studios, new workshops, rehearsal spaces, and a major upgrade of back of house facilities. Front of house, the project involved the expansion and modernization of the main public facilities including the enormously complex foyer spaces which were laid out over 17 different floor levels.

Musikzentrum, Bochum, Germany

Project Director for the invited international design competition to create a new world class concert hall In Bochum. The project extends the basic concert hall brief to allow the building to operate at a civic level enabling the completion of this fractured piece of city by creating a new square separating the Musikzentrum and the Marienkirche, thereby uniting key aspects of the fragmented post-war city plan. The designs carefully position the new concert hall centrally within a new square to create a newly defined city space and a new set piece of important cityscape centred on the new Bochum Musikzentrum (Concert Hall) and the Marienkirche (19th century church) which was restored and extended during the 1950s, after the wartime bombing.

Alzenau Kulturhaus, Alzenau, Germany

Project Director for the invited international design competition to create a 10,500m2 concert/events hall and music school complex in Alzenau. The vision for the Kulturhaus took the form of a pier projecting into the gently sloping river valley. The pier contained a 1,000 seat multi modal concert hall and conference space (2000 standing for events). The new music school, the principle centre for music education within the project, was placed across a new forecourt with supporting accommodation running in a curved building following the town’s roadway edges, connected the complex into the existing street pattern.

Kronberg, Germany

Project Director for the invited international architectural competition The design of a new urban masterplan on current brownfield land adjacent the Banhof (railway station) in Kronberg. The focus of the project was the design of a new cultural and academic nexus including a new 500 seat kammermusiksaal (recital hall) and a 1,900m2 music school for Kronberg Academy. A boutique 110 bedroom hotel formed the final build element to complete the urban plan.

Oper Berlin, Germany

Project Director for proposals to remodel and expand the famous Komische Oper. The concept for the new Komische Oper Berlin (KOB) building centres on the expansion of a major new urban arts building that will complete the city block The multi-level new 8,000m2 building contains the main activities of rehearsal and stage production, music, multi-function space, restaurant and the shop, café and box office which are arranged in clear vertical stacks around vertical circulations systems in a basement and 5/6 above ground levels.

Unicorn Theatre, London

Above: Birmingham Rep Auditorium and below main foyer

National Opera House, Interior

Marlowe Theatre, Main Stair Marlowe Theatre, Colonnade

View of National Opera House

Unicorn Theatre, Interior

Richard Brown RIBA MRIAI technical director

Education

BA(Hons) Architecture 1987

Post Graduate Diploma in Architecture Dip Arch (Hons) 1991

RIBA Part III 1992

Institute

Kingston School of Architecture

Professional Registration

RIBA RIAI ARB

Memberships + Honorifics

Royal Institute of British Architects

Architects Registration Board

Member of Southwark Design Review Panel

Member of Islington Design Review Panel

Visiting Critic London Metropolitan University

Key Role

Richard Brown is a chartered architect with 25 years post qualification experience and was a founding director of Keith Williams Architects. He is a board director with specific responsibility for project development and implementation across the company. Richard will be the Technical Director for the project and would be responsible for its technical design coordination across the design team integrating the outputs with the rest of the wider team.

Specialist Skills

Richard Brown is a specialist designer of buildings for Universities, the Performing Arts, Museums and Galleries, Libraries and Civic projects.

A gifted architect with an acute sense of architectural composition, he has excellent creative and co-ordination skills, and is expert in CAD and IT as applicable to the design and construction process. Richard Brown’s core skills and responsibilities include:

• Concept and Detail design and presentation

• High Level Strategic Client liaison

• Project Team Leader coordinating all design and delivery issues for supply chain

• Liaising with Local and Strategic Authorities during the planning process

• Detailed knowledge of technical constraints in building process

• Coordination and production of detailed construction documentation

• Stakeholder engagement and consultation management

• Overall Monitoring of Contract Administration

• Responsible for KWA IT and systems implementation

• Responsible for KWA Health and Safety policy

Relevant project experience includes:

New Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, UK

CV

Project Director responsible for the technical design and construction phase of the project 4,850m2 theatre building incorporating 1,200 seat main auditorium, 150 seat second space, with associated bars, cafe, rehearsal and backstage facilities. Richard led the coordination of full design team and the contract administration during construction.

Dates 2007-2012 .

Marlowe Theatre construction cost £23.9m at Q2 2023.

Marlowe Expansion Project

Project Director for the Marlowe Expansion Project 2,600m2 with an estimated construction cost £15m at Q4 2022

National Opera House, Wexford, Ireland

Project Director for Ireland’s National Opera House comprised 7,200m2 of spatially complex accommodation over six levels around main auditorium on a very tight site. Exceptionally high standards of detail and finish management of full design team to tight timescale and budget were achieved.

Dates 2005-2009. Construction cost £43.8m at Q2 2023.

Unicorn Theatre, London, UK

Project Director for the multi-award winning Unicorn Theatre for children and young people is located on Tooley Street near London Bridge and the River Thames. The Unicorn until its opening in 2005, was the only new central London theatre to be built since the National in 1976. It houses the 320 seat Weston Theatre, the Clore Studio theatre, education, teaching and rehearsal spaces, public foyer and café, and is the most far reaching child focussed educative and theatrical institution in the UK. Area: 3,650m2

Dates: 2001 - 2005 Construction Cost : £15.58m at Q2 2023.

Birmingham Rep, Birmingham

Project Director for the project which included the complete reshaping of the 824 seat auditorium, stage and flying equipment, and environmental services. Keith devised an overall project for a 13,000m2 redevelopment of the existing building which included in addition to the remodelled auditorium, the provision of a new variable form 250 – 350 seat second space, the reorganisation of back of house facilities and a major new civic scale front of house re-establishing the REP’s urban presence within the city.

Karlsruhe Staatstheater, Germany

Design Director for the invited international design competition for the building’s upgrade, remodelling and expansion. The design tasks were many and complex, centering on the refurbishment and remodelling of the existing main auditorium, the addition of new second theatre of 400 seats a new studio theatre and youth theatre each of 150 seats, an orchestral recital hall alongside practice/rehearsal studios, new workshops, rehearsal spaces, and a major upgrade of back of house facilities. Front of house, the project involved the expansion and modernization of the main public facilities including the enormously complex foyer spaces which were laid out over 17 different floor levels.

Musikzentrum, Bochum, Germany

Design Director for the invited international design competition to create a new world class concert hall In Bochum. The project extends the basic concert hall brief to allow the building to operate at a civic level enabling the completion of this fractured piece of city by creating a new square separating the Musikzentrum and the Marienkirche, thereby uniting key aspects of the fragmented post-war city plan. The designs carefully position the new concert hall centrally within a new square to create a newly defined city space and a new set piece of important cityscape centred on the new Bochum Musikzentrum (Concert Hall) and the Marienkirche (19th century church) which was restored and extended during the 1950s, after the wartime bombing.

Alzenau Kulturhaus, Alzenau, Germany

Design Director for the invited international architectural competition for a new 10,500 m2 concert/events hall and music school complex in Alzenau. The vision for the Kulturhaus took the form of a pier projecting into the gently sloping river valley. The pier contained a 1,000 seat multi modal concert hall and conference space (2000 standing for events). The new music school, the principle centre for music education within the project, was placed across a new forecourt with supporting accommodation running in a curved building following the town’s roadway edges, connected the complex into the existing street pattern.

Kronberg, Germany

Design team lead for the invited international architectural competition The design of a new urban masterplan on current brownfield land adjacent the Banhof (railway station) in Kronberg. The focus of the project was the design of a new cultural and academic nexus including a new 500 seat kammermusiksaal (recital hall) and a 1,900m2 music school for Kronberg Academy. A boutique 110 bedroom hotel formed the final build element to complete the urban plan.

Oper Berlin, Germany

Design Director for the invited international architectural competition to remodel and expand the famous Komische Oper. The concept for the new Komische Oper Berlin (KOB) building centres on the expansion of a major new urban arts building that will complete the city block The multi-level new 8,000m2 building contains the main activities of rehearsal and stage production, music, multi-function space, restaurant and the shop, café and box office which are arranged in clear vertical stacks around vertical circulations systems in a basement and 5/6 above ground levels.

Unicorn Theatre, London

Birmingham Rep Auditorium

National Opera House, Interior

Marlowe Theatre, Main Stair Marlowe Theatre, Colonnade

View of National Opera House

Unicorn Theatre, Interior

Birmingham Rep Main Foyer

Karlsruhe Main Auditorium

Marlowe Theatre, Auditorium

Membership

Ordine degli Architetti di Milano

Career Summary

Aline Magalhaes is an architect fully qualified in Brazil and Italy, with a Architecture Bachelor’s degree from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, in 2000, and a Master of Architecture degree from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2018.

At the Politecnico di Milano she also took a Master Degree in Exhibition Design in 2014.

Aline worked for more than 10 years at Oscar Niemeyer’s office in Brazil, in the development of several international projects, and subsequently in Italy either in collaboration with designer’s studios or with private clients.

In 2021 she moved to London and joined Keith Williams Architects.

Keith Williams Architects, London, UK: Architect (2022-present)

Edilplus s.r.l., Milan, Italy: Architect (2017-2021)

Salone Internazionale della Canapa, Milan, Italy: Project Architect (2017-2019)

Ariosto s.p.a, Buccinasco, Italy: Project Architect (2015-2016)

Angelo Jelmini Design, Milan, Italy: freelance Architect (2015)

Migliore+Servetto Architects, Milan, Italy: freelance Architect (2013-2014)

Oscar Niemeyer Architecture, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Architect (2001 - 2012)

Specialist Skills

Aline has worked on a wide variety of projects in Residential, Civic and Cultural sectors, for both public and private clients. Her international experience, covers projects of many different scales and types and has included most aspects of the design and construction process from the first stages to completion.

Relevant project experience

Clare County Library + Art Gallery, Ireland

Team member of the combined design team developing proposals for new 2,321m2 library building and art gallery co-located with existing theatre. New build elements to include public lending and reference, local studies hub and administrative headquarters for the county library service.

Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Brazil

Team member working on the design development of the 30.000m² museum facilities which included a new building and a conversion of a former school building.

Auditorium Ibirapuera, Brazil

Team member working on the design development of a new building to accommodate a music school and an auditorium for indoor and outdoor shows, with an audience capacity ranging from 800 up to 15.000 people respectively.

Auditorium Ravello, Italy

Team member of the design development of a new building set in the natural slope of Amalfi Coast, to host the annual summer music festival of Ravello.

Minas Gerais State Administrative Centre, Brazil

Team member of the design development of the entire complex of the new Administrative Centre to Minas Gerais state, in Brazil. It comprises the State Government Palace, the Central Administrative Building, an Auditorium, and Service buildings in a total of 237,500m²

Oscar Niemeyer Cultural Centre, Spain

Team member of the design development of a new cultural centre in the Principality of Asturias. The project included a Museum, Theatre, Panoramic Tower and Service building.

CV

Aline Magalhaes BA Master di Primo Livello MArch Architect OAMi

Clare County Library + Art Gallery, Ennis, Ireland

Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brazil

Auditorium Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Oscar Niemeyer Cultural Centre, Principality of Asturias, Spain

Registered Architect

Membership

Member of the Architects Registration Board - Reg. No. 095357A since 2020

Career Summary

Alexander Craig-Thompson graduated with a BA(Hons) 1st Class from the University of Kent in 2014, after which he joined Keith Williams Architects. He subsequently studied at the University of Sheffield for his M(Arch) graduating with commendation in 2017. Alexander was awarded his Post Graduate Certificate of Professional Practice in Architecture in 2019 from the University of Cambridge.

Keith Williams Architects, London: Architectural Assistant Part I (2014-2015)

Keith Williams Architects, London: Architectural Assistant Part II (2017-2020)

Keith Williams Architects, London: Architect (2020-present)

Specialist Skills

Alexander has a broad experience of architectural design, focusing on the design of cultural and civic projects. His conceptual design abilities, visual communication and language skills have played a key role in short-listed competition bids in Ireland, Germany, and Holland. Alexander has been a key member of many performing arts projects in recent years whilst also gaining technical and construction knowledge on cultural and residential projects.

Core skills include:

• Conceptual design development and communication

• Client liaison, Stakeholder engagement and consultation management

• Physical modelling and testing

• Advanced computer modelling and BIM

• Detail and technical design

Relevant project experience

Frankfurt Kinder- und Jugend Theater (youth theatre) 2021

Core team member working as part of a multi-disciplinary team working on designs for a new youth theatre housed within the grand Zoological society building. Key functional spaces for the Zoo are housed alongside the new theatre provision. The theatre is an important addition to the city offering a broad theatre programme open to all.

Berlin Komische Oper - 2020

Core team member working as part of a multi-disciplinary team working on proposals for the expansion of the Berlin Komische Oper to house new rehearsal, training and front of house spaces, as well as to reconfigure the entry sequence and public experience.

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre : Expansion - 2017

Core team member working on proposals for a new 160 seat temporary theatre on a site adjoining the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre in the city centre.The plans were approved by the City Council in March 2019 paving the way for the project to proceed. Wolverhampton Grand Theatre by the architect Charles Phipps (18351897) first opened in 1894, is the city’s principal theatre and is listed Grade II*.

Karlsruhe Staatstheater - 2015

Team member working as part of a multi-disciplinary team working on proposals for Karlsruhe Staatstheater, a 20,000m2 redevelopment and extension of the city’s main theatre and Opera venue.

Lloydminster Science & Cultural Centre - 2015

Team member working on the planning and concepts for the 2015 options study into the upgrade/replacement of the existing facility.

CV

Alexander Craig-Thompson BA(Hons), MArch, ARB

Lloydminster Science & Culture Centre, Canada

Karlsruhe Staats Theater, Karlsruhe, Germany

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre expansion, UK

Berlin Komische Oper, Berlin, Germany

Frankfurt Youth Theatre, Frankfurt, Germany

Company Structure

Keith R Williams

FRIBA MRIAI FRSA

founder+ director of design

Concept + Design Oversight

Client Strategic Market Development

Concept Client Strategic Project Technical + Programming IT Oversight Studio Resource

Practice Director

Fees & Bids

Legal Insurances H&S

Sustainability

Richard Gm Brown RIBA MRIAI technical director

DESIGN MANAGEMENT PROCESS

Design Management Process

INTERNAL CONSIDERATIONS

Monitor level against initial forecast & adjust as required

Measure against Practice Cost Base & Fee Income

Design Stage Health & Safety Monitoring CDM System

Agree BIM Protocols and common data environment

Project Cost - Agree Development with Client & QS

DESIGN TEAM INTERFACE

Measure Design against Brief & Agree Development with Client

Agree BIM Client Requirements

Practice Personnel Resource Practice Technical Resource

Monitor Performance & Team Structure against Project Programme/Complexity & adjust as required

Checking of Internal Documentation prior to Issue

PROJECT WORK STAGE

Periodically Report to Client obtaining Instruction/Feedback

Checking of Documentation

EXTERNAL CONSIDERATIONS

Monitor Production Information against Performance

Technical Development/Testing

Input from Consultants

Specialist Sub Contractors Contractor

Legislation & Approvals

Develop BIM Model to

Required Level of Detail

Obtain Client Instruction to Proceed to next stage