Kathryn is an architect and urban designer with over 25 years of international experience. Most recently she was urban design director at NBBJ in Boston.  Previous to this she was the Chief of Design at the London Legacy Development Corporation, where she directed teams of architects, landscape architects, and engineers to realise the Olympic Legacy Masterplan focusing on the social and spatial integration with the surrounding neighbourhoods.  She has led masterplanning projects from those in sensitive heritage contexts, to regeneration projects on former industrial sites in complex urban environments.  Kathryn has ongoing involvement in research including social and environmental resiliency, and intensification in urban and suburban contexts. Kathryn is a proponent of collaboration across design, development and socio-economic disciplines. She is a Mayor’s Design Advisor, Academy of Urbanism member and on design review panels. Kathryn consults to architects, developers, provides peer review and engages in research projects.

Aymara is an interdisciplinary Urban Practitioner, with a background in Planning, Masterplanning, Urban Design, Sociology, Political Economy & Governance and interests in inclusivity and enhancing wellbeing through good design. She works between disciplines drawing on a wealth of knowledge and research to bring a dynamic approach to projects. Aymara has worked with Homes England, County Councils, Local Authorities, Technical Steering Groups, Opun Design Review panels and presented at local stakeholder events with a passion and enthusiasm that gets people engaged and excited about good growth and new communities. Recent projects include Tresham Garden Village (Highly Commended at the Planning Awards 2019), Kettering East and private and public spaces across London.

Gary has collaborated with Sir Terry Farrell for 40 years on award winning, mixed use developments including: Reusing existing buildings combined with new infill at Comyn Ching Triangle in Covent Garden listed by Historic England in 2016; Masterplans at Greenwich Peninsula, Earls Court, Norwich Riverside, Newcastle Quayside, Birmingham’s Brindley Place, Otterpool Park garden town, NW Bicester Eco Town and Cambourne garden village. Gary as director of Place 54 Architects has completed residential, retail and industrial masterplans including: business parks of 500,000m2 in UK and Germany and E commerce logistics masterplan at Al Maktoum Airport for Dubia South. Awards include: 1993 Europan 3 housing competition in Haarlem, Netherlands, completed in 2005, British Homes Awards Home of the Future and RIBA Tomorrows Garden City housing in Letchworth 2007, completed in 2012. Contributions to publications include: First European Passive Solar design handbook 1980, Teaching at Kent University 1990-2000, Market Garden City 2014.

Toby is a qualified architect with a passion for city making. With 24 years experience at Farrells, Toby’s aproach to design is based upon an intimate understanding of ‘place’ and ‘context’. With many published drawings, Toby is an accomplished designer and able to communicate complex design proposals with a clear and logical narrative.

Toby has had a long career in the design and delivery of complex mixed use urban design projects both in the UK and internationally including Kowloon Super City, Greenwich Peninsula, Folkestone Waterfront and Old Oak Common

Winner of the Oxford Property Festival Young Person of the Year for 2018, Hannah is a leader in her field and promotes high-quality development and regeneration through her comprehensive and inspiring design process.

As an “ideas person” and with the desire to think outside of the box, Hannah uses her creative skills to think strategically and bring added value and energy to her work. She believes in creating narrative at every stage and engaging a design process that is interdisciplinary, follows a landscapeled approach and achieves imaginative placemaking.

Hannah recently featured in the BBC 2 documentary “The Newbuilds are Coming”, which followed a housing development through the Planning System; observing the extensive design process and detailed consideration that takes place behind the scenes of the development industry.

During her career, Hannah has been involved in, and led, the design of many projects including Masterplans and Visions for NW Bicester Eco Town, Oak Old Common, Earls Court, Royal Albert Docks, Mount Pleasant and Wood Wharf. She has successfully designed and delivered mixed-use masterplans of between 1 and 20,000 units in the South East, predominantly Oxfordshire.

Hannah is passionate about site finding, urban regeneration and creating vibrant high streets for our towns and cities.