“There are other architects whose interventions into the city are bigger or more noticeable – but there are none whose work traverses with such ease and intelligence the radically different building types that constitute the city, from spaces for social care to houses for the super-rich, the smallest gallery to the biggest commercial office.”
Edwin Heathcote Financial Times
“Our contribution is very much one to do with continuity, but in reinterpretation, in the present. (...) There isn’t a style tag. There is much more a concern for a way of crafting, the materiality of these projects, but also their relationship to a specific urban site, whether it is a street, a square, or an urban place of an atypical kind. This is really where the intensity of design discourse happens.”
Eric Parry
Eric Parry Architects is an internationally recognised practice delivering buildings of exceptional quality and lasting cultural value. Founded in 1983 by Eric Parry CBE RA, the practice operates from London and Singapore, with projects across the UK, Asia and beyond spanning workplaces, residential, mixed-use, hospitality, education, cultural and civic commissions.
The social and civic benefits of every scheme are paramount. Our approach balances context, craft and materiality with sustainability and human wellbeing. We listen closely to our clients and respond to each project's challenges with creative, imaginative solutions. Every scheme reconciles economic performance with civic contribution—creating buildings that are financially robust, environmentally responsible and architecturally distinguished.
Architecture should engage meaningfully with its surroundings to create delight and wellbeing for its inhabitants. Working with intellectual rigour, we integrate the highest craftsmanship across all scales—from bespoke ironmongery and furniture to urban masterplans. Our expertise spans urban design, architecture, interiors and public realm design.
We transform existing and historic buildings as enthusiastically as we create new structures. All developments, even on constrained sites, incorporate generous public realm and urban greening—a principle we have long championed. Long-term partnerships with civic, cultural and commercial clients ensure sustainability strategies, wellbeing principles and design intent are embedded from concept to completion.
Our cross-sector expertise informs every commission. Drawing on experience across a wide range of building types and locations, we translate insights from one sector to strengthen and enrich solutions in others. This breadth allows us to bring commercial discipline to cultural projects, civic ambition to workplace design, and human-scale sensitivity to largescale developments.
The adjacent list provides an overview of our extensive crosssector engagement, while the case studies detailed later in this document illustrate the diverse contexts and environments in which we work.
Workplace & Amenity
Masterplanning & Public Realm
Retrofit & Renewal
Mixed-Use Development
Residential
Cultural & Civic Institutions
Conservation & Heritage
Education
Infrastructure
Interiors
Our practice is defined by its people—a collective of architects, designers, and specialists whose diverse expertise and shared values underpin every project. We foster a studio culture built on collaboration, curiosity, and mutual respect, where design excellence is advanced through open dialogue, shared purpose, and collective intelligence.
Working across disciplines and geographies, our teams combine creative ambition with technical rigour, ensuring ideas are tested, refined, and realised with integrity. We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable studio that reflects the diversity of the communities we design for. This culture of collaboration and care strengthens our practice, enriches our design approach, and sustains the quality, purpose, and relevance of our work.
Structured internal working groups provide focused leadership and expertise across key practice areas:
• Sustainability & Performance – Driving low-carbon strategies and climate resilience to ensure environmental and social performance is embedded across every project.
• Technology & Innovation –Providing technical oversight and specialist guidance, while monitoring materials, technologies, and regulations to ensure consistency and innovation across projects.
• BIM & Digital Coordination –Advancing integrated workflows, model management, and digital systems to ensure seamless collaboration, technical reliability, and project delivery.
• Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) – A commitment to inclusive culture, diverse leadership, and equitable design fosters an open, collaborative, and culturally responsive workplace.
Framed by a robust internal EDI policy, Eric Parry Architects embeds social value across both its studio culture and project work. Our approach champions inclusion, mentorship, and professional growth, ensuring that the way we design, collaborate, and engage delivers meaningful benefit to our people, the profession, and the wider community.
Together, these initiatives ensure that our expertise and resources contribute meaningfully to the next generation of architects and to the broader communities we serve.
Our Social Value in Practice
• Mentoring and Knowledge Sharing – Internal mentoring schemes and regular studio-wide knowledge sessions nurture emerging talent and promote a collaborative, inclusive environment.
• Education and Training – We provide ongoing professional development for all employees, including EDI awareness training, to strengthen understanding and embed equitable practice at every level.
• Apprenticeships and Early Careers – Through the government Apprenticeship Levy, we employ and support full-time students throughout their studies, offering clear pathways into architectural practice.
• Work Experience and Access – Our work experience programme targets young people facing barriers to entry, providing practical insight into architecture. This year, we hosted 20 young Londoners from a range of boroughs.
Partnerships and Outreach:
• Blueprint for All – supporting young people from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds into professional careers.
• Mayor of London’s Fund for London – connecting opportunities to schools and boroughs most in need.
• London School of Architecture – creating internship and apprenticeship pipelines for emerging designers.
Together, these initiatives ensure that our expertise and resources contribute meaningfully to the next generation of architects and to the broader communities we serve.
Eric Parry CBE, RA Founder & Principal MA (Cantab) MA (RCA) AADipl RIBA
Eric Parry has developed a strong reputation for delivering beautifully crafted, high-quality contemporary buildings that respond to their context. He is known for the intellectual rigour and sensitivity he brings to every scheme, as well as his recognition of the importance of art and craft in the built environment.
Leading a practice of approximately 110 people in London, Eric remains actively involved in all aspects of the work, from inception to delivery. His portfolio includes a diverse range of award-winning architecture in the UK and abroad.
Eric has contributed to academia for fourteen years as a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Cambridge and has held lectureships at Harvard University Graduate Design School and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He served as President of the Architectural Association from 2005 to 2007, was elected a Royal Academician in 2006, and received a CBE in the Kings Birthday Honours 2025 for his services to architecture.
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 has chaired the RIBA Awards Group.
Our understanding of place and context is rooted in theoretical exploration and knowledge of the European city tradition. This foundation informs our design speculation, not through repetition or historicism, but through creative interpretation. We relish the urban milieu with its juxtapositions of scale, activity and lived intensity.
While the character of a building may be instigated by an individual creative thought, it is only delivered through a wider team. The client is central to this collaboration, and we have nurtured close, long-term relationships built on transparency, openness and creative dialogue. We take pride in our growing list of repeat clients who value this approach.
Eric Parry leads our creative process with a talented team of architects. Each project's scale defines its level of collaboration, bringing together consultants, specialists, and stakeholders with precision and care. For major urban projects, a director is supported by an associate director and architects focusing on specific aspects of the work.
We enjoy working at every scale, from a door handle to an urban masterplan. Each requires different design and execution, but all demand equal passion and commitment.
A successful project relies on a collaborative and communicative relationship with our clients. We take great pride in our growing list of repeat clients who appreciate the transparency, openness, and creative dialogue we bring to each project.
From the strategic brief, we work with the client to develop a robust, project-specific consultation and engagement strategy. We know from experience that it is important to invest time at the outset of a project to identify all stakeholders and to understand their position. This consultation is based on real user experiences, ensuring that every detail reflects the needs and aspirations of everyone with a vested interest in the project’s outcome.
By involving clients as active participants in the design process, we co-create solutions instead of merely delivering proposals to passive recipients. Insights from the consultation and engagement process are documented and analysed. At each work stage,
this is integrated with functional, financial, environmental, and social analysis, to arrive at a project that prioritises sustainable and impactful outcomes. Early engagement with clients also ensures that measurable sustainability targets can be set at the outset and target certification schemes agreed.
A well-structured brief helps align the requirements of all stakeholders from the beginning, serving as a benchmark for evaluating design proposals. This clarity reduces the need for costly revisions by setting clear expectations early on.
Eric Parry Architects creates architecture that unites aesthetic distinction with commercial performance, combining design ambition, technical innovation and delivery rigour to reduce risk, enhance value and build confidence.
Through rigorous exploration and testing, from concept sketches and 3D models to full-scale mockups, we develop design solutions that respond to context, brief and aspiration with precision and creativity.
The adjacent design capabilities are matched by rigorous delivery expertise that ensures creative intent is fully realised.
Feasibility & Development Strategy
Early-stage analysis of site potential, planning constraints, development economics and phasing strategies to de-risk investment decisions and maximise value.
Design Initiative & Urban Intelligence
Strategic architectural expertise across all scales, shaping schemes that strengthen civic identity, enhance value and support longterm growth.
Cross-Sector Experience
Insights gained across building types and locations inform every project, bringing commercial discipline, civic ambition and human scale sensitivity to each commission.
Commercial & Workplace Expertise
Proven design of high-performing workplaces, mixed-use projects and commercial buildings that optimise value and provide adaptability.
Heritage & Adaptive Reuse
Thoughtful transformation of existing and historic buildings that respect character while meeting contemporary performance standards and client ambitions.
Public Realm & Placemaking
Thoughtful design of civic interfaces and landscapes that create social and economic value both within and beyond the site boundary.
Landscape Integration
Collaboration with landscape designers to create stronger connections between buildings and their environments through integrated green infrastructure, biodiversity enrichment, and climateresilient design.
Sustainability & Wellbeing Strategy
Holistic integration of environmental performance, embodied carbon reduction and occupant wellbeing through design and technical innovation.
Craft, Materiality & Innovation
Crafted detailing and material innovation that delivers design distinction, technical precision and sustainable performance.
Artistic & Cultural Collaboration
Collaborations with artists and makers that enrich identity and amplify cultural resonance across our projects.
We deliver projects across all stages which enables us to successfully align design intent with construction reality to create lasting value. Combining technical rigour, innovative methods and meticulous coordination, we ensure every detail enhances performance and quality. Our integrated approach delivers resilient, efficient and inspiring spaces for clients, communities and investors.
Planning & Statutory Approvals
Strategic navigation of planning processes, building regulations and statutory consultations to secure consents and maintain project programmes.
Project Delivery & Fast-Track Execution
Engagement with complex projects from concept to completion, using offsite prefabrication, unitised systems, intelligent phasing and early contractor engagement to de-risk construction and meet programme, cost and quality targets.
Technical Delivery & Governance
Robust frameworks guarantee compliance, reliability and cost certainty, supported by ISO 196502 BIM workflows, VR/AR design review, physical mock-ups, staged QA checks and full Principal Designer oversight.
Team Leadership & Coordination
Our experience leading large, multidisciplinary teams ensures efficient progress through clear communication, structured alignment and collaborative problem-solving.
Low-Carbon Construction & Performance
Energy-efficient systems, low-carbon materials and sustainable construction practices reduce environmental impact while enhancing long-term operational value.
Value for Developers & Investors
Our proven track record delivers measurable outcomes: predictable programmes, reduced coordination risk, transparent communication and demonstrable ESG performance— building investor confidence and long-term value.
Longevity is a key factor in achieving genuine sustainability – not only in crafting high-quality architecture that is built to last, but also in giving existing buildings a new lease of life.
Every project is designed to engage with its surrounding context and meet the client’s brief. Our approach to sustainability is grounded in an evolving commitment to circular economy principles, focusing on building fabric, site conditions, renewable energy, well-being, ecology, biodiversity, and sustainable travel. The social and civic benefits of every scheme are paramount.
As an early signatory of Architects Declare, we have established an in-house sustainability working group that sets holistic, measurable goals applicable to the way we run our studio and deliver our projects. We are accredited to ISO 14001 and have developed a range of practice standards to measure.
Education and investment in our people, and material research and development, ensures continuous improvement project-by-project, year on year. This commitment and dedication has been recognised through many awardwinning projects.
The most sustainable building is often the one that already exists. For over three decades, we have worked with the existing built environment — restoring, extending, and reimagining spaces for future generations.
We understand that regeneration is not about merely preserving the past or indulging in nostalgia; it is about designing healthier, more resilient, and more vibrant futures.
We commit to:
• Early engagement – We collaborate closely with clients to set measurable project targets and certification schemes from the outset.
• A fabric first approach – is adopted on all projects aligned with the targets and principles established by key industry action groups, LETI, LEED, RIBA Climate Challenge and UKGBC.
• Retrofit and Reuse – We aim to conserve and enhance existing assets, reducing both embodied and operational carbon while preserving cultural value and significance.
• Designing for circularity – We view buildings as resource banks, not waste streams. We embed material passports, design for disassembly, and circularity into all layers of the project from structural elements right down to the furniture. Long life, loose fit.
• Reducing carbon at every stage – We collaborate with industryleading consultants to integrate whole-life carbon assessments early in the design process, promoting low-carbon decisions throughout all phases.
• Enhancing ecological and social systems – We recognise that regeneration is both an environmental and social endeavour. We design for biodiversity gain, wellbeing, and resilience.
Eric Parry Architects designs workplaces shaped by the needs of their users. Through close briefing, we create environments that attract talent, promote wellbeing, and support collaboration. By combining workspace, amenity, and wellness facilities, we deliver buildings that balance flexibility and identity— enhancing daily experience and longterm performance.
At 1 Undershaft, Eric Parry Architects’ design is shaped around the needs of its users, creating flexible, wellbeing-led workplaces supported by high-quality amenities, including a public podium garden and cultural collaboration with the London Museum. Every space enhances comfort, connection, and a sense of belonging within the City.
One Undershaft, London
Wilmar Headquarters, Singapore.
4 Pancras Square, London
Client Aroland Holdings Limited
Status Planning permission granted
Sector Workplace & Amenity
2,007,823 sq ft GEA
1,013 ft building height
76, 208 sq ft NIA private / tenant amenity space
10 x increase in site-wide biodiversity
74 floors above ground, 3 floors of basement
4 publicly accessible gardens
100% electric
Our refreshed vision for the site will see a new landmark commercial building with exemplary sustainability credentials in the heart of the City of London.
It will provide new flexible world-class, wellbeing-led office accommodation attractive to a wide range of tenants and supporting the City’s business ecosystem.
The proposals will increase and enhance the public spaces including a publicly accessible podium roof garden.
Through the established collaboration with the London Museum, access to education of the cultural life of the capital will be offered with access to the highest viewing gallery in London.
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Zone 4 & 5
Levels 50-71
Zone 3
Levels 32-47
Zone 2
Levels 14-29 Office
Zone 1
Levels 4-10
Tenant Amenity
Office Reception
Public Uses
Food Hall
End of Journey Facilities Plant
Zone 4
Zone 1
Zone 3
Zone 2
Client Wilmar International Status Completed 2022
Sector Workplace & Amenity
210,940 sq ft GIA
121 ft building height
7 floors above ground
Wilmar Headquarters hosts flexible Grade A office space, an extensive research laboratory, an auditorium, a staff cafeteria, a gym and a jogging track on the roof.
The structure has an organic form, with tiered landscape terraces overlooking the adjoining public park. Entrances to the offices is via a double height plaza entry floating on four pairs of steel encased columns. Workspaces are arranged as a series of curved decks, each one stepping back from the floor below creating cool, shaded green terraces.
Singapore’s heavy rainfall led to the use of covered walkways around the buildings to protect pedestrians from intense sun and rain.
The overhanging ceramic fins of the office floors shelter pedestrians. There are also covered walkways which lead visitors from the park into the plaza. The colourful, biodiverse planting makes walking around and under the building an enjoyable experience.
The plaza leads directly from the public realm and offers a cool, dry space for rest, relaxation and informal conversations. At various points throughout the day, the space is lit by a dramatic shaft of sunlight coming through the oculus. With a varied mix of planting and soft landscaping, the space feels like an extension of the nearby landscape. The eight-giant steelencased concrete columns have four-way branches, ascending into the structure above, resembling muscular trees, beneath the ceramic ‘canopy’.
Opposite View of the entrance
Left View of the Oculous at dusk
Client Argent Group plc
Value £76m
Status Completed 2017
Sector Workplace & Amenity
93,570 sq ft GEA
164 ft building height
10 floors above ground, two below
BREEAM Outstanding
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.
Eric Parry Architects was commissioned in 2003 to prepare an initial design for 4 Pancras Square to test the Masterplan proposal. 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 materials of the façade consist of weathering steel and white glazed ceramic for the horizontal brise soleil shading.
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.
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Eric Parry Architects develops masterplans and public spaces that respond to how people live, move, and gather. Our briefing process engages communities and stakeholders to shape coherent, connected places that balance density with quality of life. The result is a framework that supports social activity, economic vitality, and enduring urban character.
Eric Parry Architects’ masterplan for Salisbury Square creates a high-quality Civic Quarter in historic Fleet Street, designed to enhance how people live, work, and move. It integrates law courts, police headquarters, and commercial workplaces, retains key heritage assets, and delivers accessible, inclusive civic spaces that prioritise user experience while balancing resilience and sustainability within a contemporary urban setting.
Salisbury Square Masterplan, London
Warneford Park, Oxford
Granta Park, Cambridge
Client City of London Corporation, HM Courts & Tribunals Service and City of London Police
Value £425m
Status Construction
Sector Masterplan & Public Realm
588,766 sq ft GEA
125-year minimum design life
Net zero carbon in operation
100% electric
240 metre depth of geothermal piles
The Salisbury Square masterplan by Eric Parry Architects is a once in a lifetime opportunity to create a vibrant Judicial Quarter in London’s historic Fleet Street area. The masterplan established a spatial framework for the regeneration and development of 592.01507 sq ft of accommodation across three architecturally distinct buildings.
The development will consolidate the City Corporation’s law courts, a flagship 18-court facility for His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) and the City of London police headquarters onto a single site, creating a new centre of
gravity for the legal services sector in a district steeped in the history and development of English law since the signing of Magna Carta. An eight-storey commercial building will completes the trio of new buildings, and a former Victorian Chambers building will be restored and converted into a new public house. Each building has a minimum design life of 125 years, with all buildings designed for net zero carbon in operation. The design exceeds the London Plan targets for reductions in carbon emissions and the roofs of all three new buildings maximise areas for on-site energy production.
The placement of buildings and introduction of new routes has been inspired by the ancient City, revealing views of some of Fleet Street finest architectural features.
Designed in collaboration with Bradley-Hole Schoenaich Landscape, the new Salisbury Square will be enlarged to create a place where the activities of the courts, offices and public house can spill out into a new landscaped space that promotes wellbeing and biodiversity.
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View on Fleet Street
Left View of Salisbury Square
Client Oxford Health Foundation Trust & The University of Oxford Value Circa £500m
Status Planning application submitted Sector Masterplan & Public Realm
Combined 1,021,000 sq ft GEA development
130 ensuite bed hospital
320,00 sq ft GEA research building
230 ensuite bed post graduatecollege accommodation
200-year-old listed buildings adapted to house new postgraduate college facilities
Warneford Park is the redevelopment of the existing Warneford Hospital site in Headington. The new medical research campus combines a new mental health hospital, a research centre for the University of Oxford, additional space for biotech, pharmaceutical and related start-up companies, and the first new post-graduate University of Oxford College that is at the heart of the hospital and medical science ecosystem.
This joint venture between the Oxford Health Foundation Trust, The University of Oxford and a philanthropist who wishes to remain anonymous, will bring together science and clinical care on one site, benefitting from mental health research translated directly into clinical practice and delivered by top class specialists focused on preventing, diagnosing, and treating mental illness early.
services in Oxfordshire. The newly constructed Highfield Unit, providing new state of art facilities for young people with acute mental health needs, is also located on the site.
Alongside the NHS facilities, the 9-hectare site houses a varied set of organisations all focussed on brain health. The site has been home to the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry for over 50 years. The Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and the National Institute of Health Clinical Research Facility are also located there. Finally SANE, a charity committed to improving quality of life for anyone affected by mental illness is housed in The Prince of Wales International Centre for SANE Research, a dedicated building on the site.
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Visualisation looking towards Eastern Entrance Court from Roosevelt Drive
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Drawing of masterplan by Eric Parry.
Warneford Hospital was founded in 1821 as a dedicated mental health hospital and is the main inpatient base for adult and young people’s mental health and eating disorder
The listed buildings, designed by Richard Ingleman and then extended by J.C Buckler and William Wilkinson, are the oldest inpatient facilities in use in the NHS, and are no longer fit for purpose for delivering modern mental healthcare. The scope for alterations is limited by their Grade II listing.
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Diagrammatic representation of the proposed hospital and research building
Visualisation of the Central Garden from the Orchard
To unlock the potential of the site Eric Parry Architects and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan are developing a landscape-led masterplan that will enhance the ethos of co-production and collaboration across the site. This will be delivered in phases to allow crucial services to continue uninterrupted during construction.
The new hospital and research facility, designed by Eric Parry Architects will foster these connections through shared teaching spaces, meeting rooms, café and lecture theatre enabling collaborative partnerships between clinicians and researchers to develop. The University of Oxford Psychiatry Department will be collocated with flexible commercial laboratory spaces encouraging spinout and complementary research.
Alongside new collegiate facilities, the listed buildings will be transformed into a new post graduate medical college through a process of sensitive intervention and reuse, completing the vision to provide a long-term sustainable new use while continuing Warneford’s long established legacy of mental healthcare provision.
Underpinning the design are a set of ambitious sustainability targets. Both the hospital and research facility will be designed to Passivhaus principles, as well as achieving the NHS Net Zero Building Standard and a 10% Biodiversity Net Gain. These metrics are just part of the holistic, sustainable, masterplan that establishes connections with surrounding landscapes, both the listed landscape features and the adjacent Warneford Meadow, a designated Town Green.
The new hospital also prioritises the restorative benefits of landscape and outdoor space on the treatment of patients providing a series of landscapes for different characters for visiting, therapy and staff break out.
The design of the hospital has emerged through in-depth engagement with NHS staff from clinicians to estates management and ‘Experts by Experience’ who are able to inform the design from a service user’s perspective. Working with interested parties across the partnership has enabled true co production with Eric Parry Architects and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust presenting the scheme together at the Design in Mental Health Conference.
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Visualisation looking west across Warneford Green toward Dining Hall and Apple House Building (Zone 2 & 3 indicative only)
Client Granta Park
Sector Masterplan & Public Realm
Granta Park was conceived as a pioneering science and business community, where world-class research facilities sit within a rich landscape framework by Eric Parry Architects and Latz + Partner, combining ecological stewardship, sustainable infrastructure, and a strong sense of place. The vision goes beyond laboratories, creating an enduring environment that fosters innovation, collaboration, and wellbeing.
The first phase delivered 50,000 sqm of R&D laboratories within the Green Belt, meeting demand for high-tech workspace while adhering to strict sustainability and design standards. Former farmland was transformed into a high-quality campus with sustainable transport, water, and waste systems, alongside amenities including a cricket pitch, restaurant, and conference centre. Profits supported The Welding Institute (TWI) in its expansion.
The 1992 masterplan, a joint venture between MEPC and TWI, covered 87 acres as a low-density, fully landscaped campus preserving the rural character of the site. Over 15 years, Granta Park became one of the UK’s most successful science parks, recognised for combining advanced facilities with a distinctive landscape setting.
Building on this success, Eric Parry Architects were commissioned to expand TWI’s facilities, delivering new catering areas, offices, and research spaces. The work reinforces the park’s founding principles of design quality, technological excellence, and landscape continuity.
Eric Parry Architects led the second phase to meet growing demand for flexible, sustainable life science facilities in this established South Cambridgeshire location. Situated east of Phase 1 and south of the Grade II listed Abington Hall, Phase 2 delivers 34,000 sqm of office and laboratory space across five buildings within a shared, richly landscaped environment.
The design extends the park’s landscape framework, linking crescent-shaped pavilions with green spaces and water features to preserve long vistas and a sense of openness. Sustainability is integral, with high-performance façades, low- and zero-carbon technologies, and passive design measures expected to achieve a 32.7% reduction in regulated carbon emissions, exceeding minimum targets. The development targets BREEAM Excellent, WELL Gold, and WiredScore certification, ensuring high environmental performance and user wellbeing.
Together, the three phases of Granta Park realise a long-term vision: an evolving, sustainable campus that supports worldleading research and innovation within a landscape defined by design excellence, community, and ecological stewardship.
Eric Parry Architects designs mixed-use places around people, where living, working, and leisure coexist in balance. Early engagement with clients and communities informs design strategies that foster identity, flexibility, and vibrancy. Through thoughtful planning and phasing, we create neighbourhoods that evolve gracefully and remain active, inclusive, and economically resilient.
At 50 Fenchurch Street, every detail is designed for the people who use it. From effortless daily routines to smart, intuitive systems, the building supports wellbeing, engagement, and productivity. Thoughtful collaboration and sustainable design ensure the space works for tenants, visitors, and the wider community— proving that user-focused workplaces are smart, responsible, and inspiring.
50 Fenchurch Street, London
Kyobashi 3-Chrome, Japan
Fen Court, London
Client The Clothworkers’ Company
Status Construction
Sector Mixed Use Development
36 storeys above
1,000,000 sq ft of office space
13,810 sq ft public roof garden
4, 628 sq ft winter garden
489 ft building height
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 proposed scheme sets the Tower within a new street level public realm, with the aspiration of providing public access to the interior. Lambe’s Chapel Crypt is to be relocated to a publicly accessible location on site, providing the opportunity to improve the Crypt’s presentation, setting and understanding.
Opposite View of the proposed City Cluster
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New public realm at ground
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Public roof garden at level 10
Typical High Zone 2
Typical High Zone 1
Typical Mid Zone
Typical Low Zone
Client Kyobashi 3-chome East Area Redevelopment Preparatory Association
Value Confidential
Status Planning Permission Granted
Sector Mixed Use Development
1,760,000 sq ft GEA
590 ft building height
35 floors above ground 4 levels of basement
Zero Emission Tokyo 2050
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 Chuo-dori 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 building will be connected to the new Tokyo Sky Corridor enhancing the public realm. The Sky Corridor is the upper deck of an elevated expressway that will be pedestrianised in a major new public-private partnership project.
The project is due for completion in 2029.
Client Generali Real Estate
Value £140m
Status Completed 2018
Sector Mixed Use Development
675,936 sq ft GEA
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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.
Designed in collaboration with Latz + Partner, the garden is a unique, open-air area for the public and tenants alike that offers panoramic views of London from within the Square Mile, and across the city to the Tower of London and beyond. With a lively restaurant located directly below, Fen Court’s roof garden is an urban oasis to be appreciated both from within as well as from the taller surrounding buildings.
The building conforms to the architectural principle of a base with retail use, a body of office floors, and upper level of offices which are housed in the building’s iridescent polychromatic crown. This feature wasn’t thought about on its own but rather as an advert for the rooftop garden. The crown’s-coloured dichroic glass, which catches light and changes appearance throughout the day, signposts the public amenity on top of the building and gives Fen Court its unmistakeable character and identity.
Generosity is given to the public realm at street level. The pedestrian walkway through the building follows the historic route of the Hogarth Court passage. A central square at the heart of the walkway is illuminated from above by digital public art created by artists Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier. The animation displayed on the LED screen creates activity, light and movement that is visible from the thoroughfare, inviting pedestrians to use the walkway and explore the gardens above.
Overleaf View on Fenchurch Street Left Façade detail
Eric Parry Architects works with clients to unlock the potential of existing buildings. Through rigorous briefing and analysis, we determine what to preserve and what to transform, balancing heritage, carbon reduction, and contemporary use. Targeted interventions enhance performance, extend building life, and create renewed spaces that meet today’s users’ needs while delivering measurable sustainability benefits.
At 11 Belgrave Road, Eric Parry Architects delivered over 150,000 sq ft of Grade A workspace, repurposing 35% of the existing building while expanding floor area to meet modern workplace needs. Achieving NABERS DFP 5.5 stars, BREEAM Outstanding, and WELL Platinum, the project demonstrates how adaptive reuse creates high-performance, sustainable workplaces for tenants and the wider community.
Opposite View of oak-clad entrance lobby of 11 Belgrave Road
Client Quadrum Global Value £47m
Status Completed June 2024
Sector Adaptive Re-use & Renewal
45,885 sq ft GEA
75 ft building height
7 floors above ground 1 level of basement
BREEAM: Outstanding
NABERS: 5.5
Eric Parry Architects has completed the renewal of 11 Belgrave Road on behalf of leading investor developer Quadrum Global. Comprising just over 150,000 sq ft of Grade A workspace, the project sets a new standard for high quality offices in Victoria, London.
Working with MEP Engineer Max Fordham LLP, Structural and Civil Engineer Heyne Tillett Steel, and Landscape Architects, Gillespies, the project team has achieved the UK’s first NABERS DFP score of 5.5 star, as well as achieving BREEAM Outstanding, WELL Platinum, Wiredscore Platinum and Smartscore Platinum.
11 Belgrave Road places a key focus on wellbeing, sustainability and user-centric design. Located less than a ten-minute walk from Victoria train station, the new office space will serve the flourishing business community in the City of Westminster.
The completed project increases the floor area on site by 31% of the previous building and features enhanced community assets, with a publicly accessible café, gymnasium and co-working spaces for both commercial and community hire.
The project retained and repurposed an ambitious 35% of total built fabric already on site – including a large section of the concrete structure and foundations. This substantially reduces the lifetime embodied carbon emissions of the project, which has been designed to exceed the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge embodied carbon target by 38%.
Landscaping and biophilia are a core focus of the design, promoting biodiversity and enhancing occupant connection to nature for health and wellbeing. Landscape architects Gillespies’ dynamic and sustainable planting seamlessly weaves throughout garden courtyards, terraces and planted facades. A large garden to the rear of the building is visible from the street, providing urban greening to the nearby area.
The sustainable redevelopment of 11 Belgrave Road delivers new high-quality office and mixed use space for its users and the public, as well as enhancing the surrounding conservation area with its contextual façades and landscaping.
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Interior view looking out into the courtyard
Status Planning Permission Granted
Sector Adaptive Re-use & Renewal
84,355 sq ft GEA
160 ft building height
13 floors above ground 2 levels of basement
Certification Targets: BREEAM: Outstanding NABERS: 5.5
Our collaboration with the city for the sustainable retrofit of 40 Holborn Viaduct epitomises a commitment to sustainability, wellbeing, and modern functionality. Retaining 70% of the original embodied carbon, the project transforms the eightstory office building into 17,050 m² of fully decarbonised, Class A workspace, integrating innovative features and amenities.
Adding three new levels and balcony extensions, the design harmonizes with the triangular site, resembling historic Roman gateways. A dynamic, green façade replaces the defensive stone envelope, promoting biodiversity and user wellbeing. Balconies provide self-shading, while terraces offer open-air amenities, fostering a connection with nature amidst urban surroundings.
The transparent façade along Charterhouse Street and Holborn Viaduct enhances connectivity and introduces a "pocket park" at Holborn Circus, creating inviting spaces.
A town hall space with amphitheatre steps fosters community engagement, offering a versatile venue for meetings, cultural events, and gatherings. The double-height glazed section enhances visual connectivity with the streetscape, inviting interaction and participation.
The sustainable approach of the project extends beyond energy efficiency, encompassing material selection and environmental performance. Recycling existing façade stone into terrazzo for the interior and landscape fit out underscores the commitment to sustainability, minimising waste and preserving resources.
Overall, the project revitalizes the building as a gateway to the City, delivering enhanced workspaces and contributing to the cultural life of London. Through its sustainable design and community-oriented features, 40 Holborn Viaduct sets a precedent for future developments, demonstrating how architecture can seamlessly integrate with its surroundings while prioritising the wellbeing of its occupants and the planet.
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Eric Parry Architects designs buildings that support major infrastructure and the people who use them. Our briefing process addresses complex technical, operational, and public requirements to create architecture that performs under demanding conditions. Through clear planning and crafted design, we deliver places that work seamlessly and improve everyday experience.
At 1 Liverpool Street, the briefing focused on creating a modern, flexible workplace above and around vital transport infrastructure. Structural and architectural solutions navigate tube and Crossrail tracks, vent shafts, and historic tunnels, delivering a seamless, user-focused environment that establishes a prominent new workplace hub in the revitalised Liverpool Street area.
One Liverpool Street, London
The Goodsyard, London
Client Aviva
Status Construction Sector Infrastructure
270,133 sq ft GEA
10 floors above ground
2 floors of basement
100% pre-let
Following the win of a limited invited competition in December 2012, Eric Parry Architects was commissioned to develop proposals for a new Over Station Development (OSD) consisting of 10 levels of offices with retail units at ground level. The building occupies a prominent site at the junction of Liverpool Street and Blomfield Street close to Finsbury Circus in the City of London.
Located directly over the existing Metropolitan Line tracks, new Crossrail tunnels and various contemporary and historic buried infrastructure, the building takes support where it can and negotiates bridging the live assets through a series of transfer structures.
The 10-storey office building, due for completion in 2026, incorporates retail at ground floor and features a painted cast and fabricated metal facade providing a crafted modern interpretation of the architecture of Finsbury Circus and Liverpool Street Station whilst mediating with the contemporary Broadgate Estate to the north and will provide a fitting and animated civic backdrop to Finsbury Circus and the pedestrianised Liverpool Street.
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Client Ballymore Properties Limited Hammerson UK Properties PLC Status Planning
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 505, 903 sq ft 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 25-30% co-working spaces. (The affordable space may be part of the coworking space).
Eric Parry Architects designs homes around how people live. Early dialogue with clients, communities, and users informs layouts that maximise light, privacy, and flexibility. From high-end developments to mixed-tenure neighbourhoods, we create housing that feels generous, efficient, and enduring, enhancing comfort, wellbeing, and connection in urban life.
At Chelsea Barracks, our briefing centred on the everyday experience of residents. Thoughtful layouts and generous amenities – including landscaped gardens and sports facilities – foster privacy, adaptability, and community, creating a vibrant, user-focused neighbourhood that supports both individual comfort and shared urban life.
Chelsea Barracks, London
Westminster Residential Development, London
1 Grosvenor Square, London
Ichiban-Cho, Tokyo
Client Qatari Diar
Status Construction
Sector Residential
98 luxury apartments
145 parking spaces
90 communal secure cycle storage spaces
Sports club with tennis courts, pool and spa
Chelsea Barracks is one of London’s most notable new estates. Formerly occupied by the British Army for nearly 150 years, the site has been transformed into a super-prime/luxury residential development. This new housing honours the site’s rich military history while reconnecting the former barracks and parade ground with the historic streets, gardens and squares of Belgravia and Chelsea
In 2015, Eric Parry Architects won a limited competition to design three new residential blocks, which make up Phase 4 of the masterplan by Squire and Partners, Dixon Jones, and landscape designer Kim Wilkie. The masterplan establishes a new structure and organisation within the urban setting, reminiscent of the great London estates of the 18th century. This has been informed by a contextual understanding of the urban grain together with reference to the characteristic London precedent of residential garden square and terrace.
The Grade-II listed Garrison Chapel and the listed cast-iron railings of the former barracks have also been preserved and incorporated into the estate. Water features in the landscape design by Gustafson Porter + Bowman traces the course of the Westbourne River that once flowed through the site before being culverted in the 19th century. All buildings within the development are designed to be harmonious in scale and proportion, using a cohesive palette of materials as specified by a design code.
Eric Parry Architects’ accomplished and subtle design is highly attuned to each building’s position in the order of the whole, and uses highquality materials, detailing and craftsmanship to meet the ambitions and budget of the developer Qatari Diar.
The three buildings define the edges of two publicly accessible garden squares—Mulberry Square and Five Fields Square—and enclose a garden court. Together, they comprise 98 luxury apartments and feature a residents' sports centre, spa, and parking facilities. Five Fields Square is the largest landscaped open space within the estate with a serene lawn and trees for residents and visitors to enjoy.
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View from Chelsea Bridge Road
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Building 7 & 8 onto Five Fields Square
Building 7 is the most prestigious of the three blocks, due to its position on Chelsea Bridge Road, the main street frontage of the development. With its central location, southwest orientation, and views to the Grade IIlisted Ranelagh Gardens and Sir Christopher Wren’s Grade I-listed Royal Hospital across the street, it stands out as the most distinguished apartment building in the entire Chelsea Barracks Estate.
The building's high status is reflected in its design, featuring a 60 metre long stone colonnade along the street frontage. The smooth, monumental limestone columns anchor the building while emphasising its tripartite vertical arrangement of base, body, and attic level.
Inscribed on a frieze in the stone entablature, which also serves as a balustrade for the terrace above, are the words of poet Pelé Cox. The themes of the verse are inspired by the history of Ranelagh Gardens and surrounding views of nature. The poetry reflects motifs of trees, birds, gardens, and the River Thames. In contrast to the solidity of the colonnade, the upper four floors feature full height glazing behind curved stone piers. The curved glass and cast-metal Juliette balconies between the piers reflect rather than absorb light.
Described by Eric Parry as a ‘wisp of smoke,’ the coiling knot handrails of the balconies are pinned into the load-bearing limestone piers and connect with the curved glass at several points. The sculptural design of the handrails and glass beautifully mirrors the light and the twisted branches of the mature trees in Ranelagh Gardens across the street, offering residents views into what was once an 18th-century pleasure garden.
In contrast to Building 7, Building 8 faces Five Fields Square. It combines a stone base with a body made of high-quality, dark brickwork, reminiscent of London’s Georgian and Victorian brick terraces and the nearby 18thcentury Royal Hospital, designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
The projecting hung balconies made of cast metal add rhythm to the façade while enhancing the apartments' amenities. These balconies overlook Five Fields Square, which has been designed as a multipurpose ‘green field’ for use by both visitors and residents.
The organic pattern of the cast metal is closed at the bottom to provide residents with privacy, while the upper portion is more open and filigree, enabling residents to visually connect with the activities below.
Building 6 forms the western edge of Mulberry Square, the main pedestrian axis through the development, and its facades one of ashlar stonework.
Less formal than Building 8, it responds to the differing scales of the neighbouring structures, including the Grade II-listed Garrison Chapel.
To moderate the masterplan’s massing and the building’s length, two full-height recesses have been carved out of the front elevation, visually dividing it into three smaller sections. These recessed bays include deep, projecting balconies with substantial stone balustrades.
Each section of the building’s fenestration is framed within a rebated rectangular surround panel, which is set slightly behind the front plane, creating dramatic shadows and a sense of depth. The attic level on this façade is marked by a different rhythm of windows that includes deep reveals. All openings on the façade are spanned by fullwidth stone lintels.
Client Private Status Planning Sector Residential
Located in the heart of Belgravia, this proposal continues a series of refined, high-quality residential projects across Central London. Designed for a long-standing client, the development aspires to create an elegant new residential address that balances heritage sensitivity with contemporary design.
The scheme comprises private apartments, social rent homes, and a landscaped courtyard, complemented by basement-level amenities and improved ground-floor retail and community uses. Together, these elements enhance the character and vitality of the neighbourhood while providing residents with exceptional living spaces.
A new UK headquarters for the client will also form part of the development, reinforcing a lasting commitment to Belgravia and its continued growth.
Guided by principles of quality, context, and craftsmanship, the design responds to the rhythm and scale of surrounding townhouses and listed buildings. The result is a timeless addition to Belgravia’s architectural landscape — one that enriches the local setting and exemplifies the best of contemporary urban living.
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Proposed perspective view
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Study Model with Site Context
Client Lodha
Status Completed 2020
Sector Conservation & Heritage
48 super-prime residential units and townhouses
1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 bedroom apartments
Amenities and restaurant
4,000 stones saved
66 palettes of bricks salvaged
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View from the square (CGI)
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.
With the relocation of a number of diplomatic missions, the scheme reflects the changing nature of the Mayfair area, reverting the site to residential use and repositions
Grosvenor Square as the premiere Mayfair residential square.
Following detailed consultations with Westminster City Council and The Grosvenor Estate, a strategy of reconstruction has been developed by carefully recording and dismantling the most significant façades.
Subsequent reconstruction enables minor adjustments to the building’s hierarchy, sensitive contemporary interventions and the provision of basement car parking, residential amenities and enables structural acoustic isolation and enhanced building envelope performance.
Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Client Mitsubishi Estate Residence with Tokyu Land Corporation & Tokyu Corporation
Status Planning Permission Granted
Sector Residential
213 luxury apartments
197 ft building height
14 floors above ground 4 levels of basement
323 parking spaces
214 secure cycle storage spaces
Eric Parry Architects and Mitsubishi Jisho Design, commissioned by Mitsubishi Estate Residence in collaboration with Tokyu Land Corporation and Tokyu Corporation, present a prestigious residential development on the historic grounds of the former British Embassy, adjacent to the Imperial Palace.
Inspired by the Katsura Imperial Villa, the architecture blends heritage and innovation—creating expansive, street-facing living spaces that harmonise indoor and outdoor life. The east elevation, facing the Palace, is designed with deep façades for privacy and elegance, reflecting the decorum of its prestigious setting. This modern sanctuary comprises 213 luxury residences, typically units
ranging from 80 sqm to 355 sqm, set within a 59m tall building . The development spans 14 floors above ground and 4 basement levels, with a total Gross Internal Area (GIA) of 86,337.74 sqm.
The residence is nestled within a lush garden landscape, offering refined living in the heart of Tokyo—where nature, history, and contemporary life converge.
Eric Parry Architects designs cultural and civic buildings shaped by the identity of their institutions and communities. Through close collaboration, we translate complex briefs into places that invite participation and support performance, exhibition, and learning. Crafted, durable architecture enhances both public experience and institutional legacy.
At The Holburne Museum, a 15-year journey has centred on enhancing the visitor experience, guiding the building’s evolution to meet contemporary needs through sensitive interventions and adaptive reuse. New accessible exhibition spaces, improved circulation, and interactive installations create a more engaging and inclusive environment that deepens the connection between the museum, its collections, and its audiences.
The Holburne Museum, Bath
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
The British Museum, London
Client Holburne Museum Trust
Value 2011 - £5.4, 2025 - £2m
Status Completed 2011 & 2025
Sector Cultural & Civic Institutions
Grade I listed building within a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Over 3000 sq ft of new gallery & exhibition spaces
Four fold increase in visitor numbers on completion
RIBA Award Winning South West Buidlign of the Year
The Holburne Museum is a
Grade I listed building located at the end of Great Pulteney Street in Bath, within a conservation area and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over fifteen years, Eric Parry Architects has delivered two major phases of work that demonstrate how heritage buildings can evolve to meet contemporary needs through sensitive intervention and adaptive reuse.
The first phase, completed in 2011, introduced a three-storey extension providing 800 sqm of new gallery and public space. The design reestablished the museum’s historic axial relationship with Sydney Gardens while transforming the visitor experience with improved accessibility, a garden café, and enhanced facilities. Following completion, visitor numbers quadrupled and the project received
the RIBA South West Building of the Year Award (2012), evidencing how investment in historic buildings can drive public engagement.
Completed in 2025, the latest phase focused on adaptive reuse as a conservation strategy, accommodating the Schroder family collection within the existing structure. Former back-of-house areas and offices were converted to create 128 sqm of additional gallery space, enhancing the museum’s ability to display its growing collection and host major loans.
Together, these interventions have expanded the museum’s capacity to welcome over 100,000 visitors annually while respecting its exceptional setting. The Holburne demonstrates that conservation and growth can align—showing how careful evolution can sustain civic purpose and cultural vitality within a historic fabric.
Client St Martin-in-the-Fields
Value £26m
Status Church interior completed & reopened 2007. Exterior works & new pavilion completed 2008
Sector Conservation & Heritage
The parish Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields is justifiably regarded as the masterpiece of the distinguished 18th century architect James Gibbs and one of the country’s finest historic churches. It plays a substantial and positive role in shaping the architectural and townscape character of Trafalgar Square and this part of Central London and contributes considerably to the cultural and social life of the capital. It is a landmark building and is of the greatest importance both nationally and internationally.
The project was a masterplan for the whole St Martin-in-the-Fields site to achieve a once in a century reorganisation for the varied uses. These included: the refurbishment and conservation of Gibbs’ Grade I listed church and crypt; the reconstruction of the below ground spaces; the rationalisation and extension of the Grade II listed Nash Terrace; and the reordering of the publicly accessible spaces. The latter forming the missing sacred element of World Squares for All at Trafalgar Square.
This project received Heritage Lottery Funding and planning approval from Westminster City Council and the Diocesan Advisory Committee was received in October 2003. The restoration of the church interior was awarded a Georgian Group Architectural Award in 2007 for the restoration of a Georgian Church.
“This project has been a truly epic undertaking and its completion is doubtless as much a tribute to its architect’s powers of negotiation as to the intelligence it has brought to the design. Faced with a fantastically complex set of challenges, it has somehow maintained a real singularity of vision throughout.”
View from below, looking up through the light well
Client The Brisish Museum
Status Competition Shortlist
Sector Cultural & Civic Institutions
Eric Parry Architects in collaboration with Jamie Fobert Architects were one of five teams selected in an international design competition to re-envisage and transform a significant part of its Bloomsbury site: The Western Range. This is the Museum’s biggest building project since the 1820s, when work commenced on the original quadrangle.
The ambition is significant: to restore the Western Range and, in so doing, reimagine a third of the existing gallery area, deliver improved collections storage and create new amenities to enhance the visitor experience, making the collection as accessible as possible to all the Museum’s audiences.
Our approach to the extraordinary potential of the Western Range, was to restore the fine historic fabric as well as creating exciting new contemporary galleries and a completely revitalised way of moving through the building to improve the visitor experience.
By piercing the façade of the Great Court and allowing multiple entrances through the depth of the Western Range, our design sought to relieve congestion and enable the Great Court and the Western Range to coexist in a much more congenial way.
We suggested relocating the South Stair to transform the visitor experience and display of collections in the Western Range.
Repositioning the Stair as a museum artefact celebrates its heritage significance, while unlocking a clear and legible visitor route and enabling inspiring new galleries within historic spaces. The addition of a new contemporary stair leads the visitor to the restored and revitalised lower galleries. At the upper level, we conceived a vast new gallery, inhabiting the rooftop of the Western Range. Under a field of rooflights, with the ability to control light and temperature, this large and flexible space will become the ‘lending library of culture’. An expansive ‘gallery of the horizon’.
Robert Smirke’s original intent to build the Western Range around two courtyards was re-established in our proposals with two new covered courts. These monumental, light-filled volumes give clarity to the surrounding galleries and add a perceptible hierarchy of spaces to the Western Range.
For the first time, this would create a space to display the fragments of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus as an architectural ensemble at their original scale. The new courts allow the visitor to make connections horizontally and vertically, across time and across cultures.
At the heart of our holistic transformation of the Western Range was a deeply sustainable response. We proposed a compact and efficient technical roof, enveloping the entire Western Range, to allow complete control of light, temperature and humidity: protecting and preserving the fragile historic fabric. Designing for longevity, we proposed working with stone and prioritised durable, local and renewable materials and workmanship.
Eric Parry Architects engages deeply with clients and custodians to understand the significance and potential of heritage buildings. Each project begins with dialogue and research, defining how contemporary use can coexist with historic value. Our sensitive, inventive approach renews heritage for modern life while preserving the stories embedded in its fabric.
At St John’s Waterloo, the project built on a legacy of community engagement, shaping a brief that balances heritage conservation with active use. The scheme provides flexible accommodation for St John’s and wider community initiatives, while conserving the church and its artworks, creating a renewed place that invites participation and strengthens connections with a diverse range of users.
Client The Charterhouse
Value £4.2m
Status Completed February 2017
Sector Conservation & Heritage
400 years of history revealed to the public
Multiple award winning scheme
Significant increase in visitor numbers
In 2012, Eric Parry Architects won a competition to make strategic interventions at The London Charterhouse. The Charterhouse is an historic complex centred on a 14th century Carthusian Monastery.
Following the Dissolution, its buildings were rebuilt as an extensive mansion house in the 16th century, and a charitable school and almshouse in the 17th century. Charterhouse School moved to Surrey in the 19th century and the almshouse (Sutton’s Hospital) remains the primary occupant of the site.
This charity, in partnership with the Museum of London, has revealed its heritage to the public. After the site was bombed in 1941, the extensive damage repaired with mixed success in the 1950s.
This repair has allowed many opportunities to constructively restore, and sensitively adapt the most historic wings of the site for new uses in the continued life of the charity.
The project provided public access to a hidden treasure, the built fabric of which has witnessed key moments in the history of England and Europe. From a vastly improved and redesigned public square, the public is invited via a new entrance into a new reception, education room and museum facilities.
Client St John's, Church Waterloo
Value £5.5m
Status Completed 2023
Sector Cultural & Civic Institutions
Eric Parry Architects has completed the £5.5 million restoration and renovation of the Grade II* listed St John’s Church in Waterloo. The improvements to the church will safeguard it as a place for worship and spiritual enrichment, delivering upgrades to its facilities that help it meet its ambition to play a leading role in the social, cultural and spiritual life of Waterloo and the wider city of London.
Eric Parry Architects has restored and revealed key elements of the historic interior of the church to create a high-quality space for arts and events within the listed building. The newly refurbished church provides a place of worship and one of the best performance event and meeting spaces on the South Bank, with accommodation for St John’s own and other community projects, as well as the conservation of the unique church and its art.
The project takes major steps to move St John’s towards the Church of England’s target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2030. Solar energy use has been integrated into design from the outset, with a major installation of 80 solar panels covering almost all the south-facing roof, with the capacity to generate a potential 30 kWh in bright sunshine.
Of the £5.5m of funds raised to complete the renovations, more than £1m came from the congregation – a strong indication of local support for the project. Other major grants came from the London Borough of Lambeth, the Big Lottery Reaching Communities Fund and The Mayor of London’s Good Growth Fund. The solar panel project was made possible by a grant of £30,000 from the Mayor’s London Community Energy Fund. The rest was made up by many other trusts, foundations and individual donors.
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Eric Parry Architects creates learning environments informed by the needs of students, teachers, and institutions. Through collaborative briefing, we design flexible, sustainable spaces that adapt to changing pedagogies and technologies. Clear circulation, daylight, and crafted detail support concentration and curiosity, making architecture an active partner in education.
At Wells Cathedral School, extensive stakeholder engagement informed a brief that goes beyond traditional classrooms, creating spaces designed to teach both students and educators. Flexible learning zones, collaborative areas, and technologyintegrated environments respond directly to the needs of those who use them, ensuring the architecture actively supports teaching, learning, and professional development.
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Brighton College Music School, East Sussex
Client Wells Cathedral School
Value £7m
Status Completed 2016
Sector Education
Cedars Hall is an award-winning new music facility for teaching, learning, performance and recording of music. The building contains a technically-excellent recital hall and inter-connected flexible spaces.
The recital hall can accommodate an audience of over 400 and is recessed into the surrounding garden, which is visible from the hall through large windows.
Natural light fills the space during the day and the building becomes a lantern in the landscape during the evenings.
The stage, seating and acoustic wall panels within the hall can be adapted for various layouts with differing acoustic qualities suitable for a range of music styles and audience configurations.
Sited in The Cedars, the Georgian heart of the school, Cedars Hall lies on the historically significant axis with Wells Cathedral’s Chapter House, and both share the function of gathering spaces for the local and regional community.
The new building maintains important views from the landmark Cedar Tree to Wells Cathedral and views across the garden and grounds. The design incorporates local stone used on the listed garden wall within the site, low reflective glazing and matte, warm finished steel on the exterior façades.
The project recently won a RIBA National Award, South West Award and was also awarded the RIBA South West Building of the Year (2017).
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The new recital hall
Client The Masters, Fellows & Scholars of Pembroke College
Value £6.5m
Status Masterplan completed 1989
Foundress Court completed 1998
Sector Education
History is more of a burden for the inhabitants of one of the oldest university towns in England than is generally acknowledged. Given the college’s unending need for further accommodation and the restriction on site within the densely developed town fabric of Cambridge, the addition of nearly 100 student rooms, a fellow’s set, computer centre, meeting rooms and new Master’s Lodge was a challenge requiring a very comprehensive masterplan.
The complex nature of this building in an urban context between town streets and a collegiate interior is illustrated by the fifteen elevations that make up the exterior. The two perpendicular wings of the building form the new boundaries to one of the college courts.
“All in all, it is a most impressive building, particularly in the careful detailing and choice of materials, and it confirms Parry as a major talent of his generation.”
Peter Blundell Jones, The Architects’ Journal
At the northern end, the building resolves as a raised, cloistered garden; at the western end, the master’s lodge forms the end of the building.
At the intersection of the wings there is a main stair which rises up below the roof lantern. The lantern demarcates the new college entrance. To the street side, six new small courts of different character are formed between projecting pavilions.
The building is formed from in-situ concrete slabs supported on load bearing blockwork walls. The fabric of the building has been developed using some of the most innovative specialists and testing bodies to create a building with an anticipated life of over 200 years.
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Brighton
Client Brighton College
Value £10m (Phases 1&2) Phase 1 £5m
Status Completed 2016
Sector Education
8 practice room spaces
195 seat recital hall
RIBA Award regional Winner
In 2010 Eric Parry Architects won an invited competition to design a new music school for Brighton College. In 2011 the brief was expanded to include a new drama building with theatre, dance rehearsal spaces and shared foyer to form a new performing arts centre at the heart of the school.
The competition winning concept was for a simple pitched roof pavilion to give the school a face onto the Home Ground to the north of the main school buildings.
The building is contemporary in character, reflecting the school’s vision for the future, whilst the pitched roof reflects the gables of the original Victorian Gothic school buildings. The Sarah Abraham Recital Hall can seat an audience
of up to 195. It provides a flexible teaching and performance space with a retractable seating system, integrated stage lighting and mechanically operated variable acoustic system in the wall linings.
Carefully detailed materials, such as the Caen stone ashlar walls and dramatic glazed roof tiles allow this new addition to sit comfortably in its historic context as well as being very much a building of our time.
The redevelopment redefines a previously neglected and congested part of the campus. It restores dignity to George Gilbert Scott’s original school building and creates a wonderful new facility which makes the performing arts central to campus life.
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View from the playing field showing bespoke glazed ceramic tiled roof
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Detail of roof model
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The Sarah Abraham Recital Hall
Eric Parry Architects' interiors are guided by how people inhabit and experience space. We work closely with clients to shape environments that are both beautiful and functional, tailored to their use and identity. Through careful attention to light, material, and proportion, we create interiors that feel effortless, coherent, and enduring.
At The Leathersellers’ Hall, our briefing focused on creating a 7th hall that honours tradition while meeting the needs of modern users. Returning to its historic site, the design combines heritage and contemporary craftsmanship, with ceremonial, hospitality, and social spaces carefully arranged to prioritise comfort, functionality, and the everyday experience of those who inhabit the building.
The Leathersellers' Hall, London
Four Seasons Spa, London.
St James' Square
Client The Leathersellers’ Company
Status Completed 2016
Sector Interiors
120 seat dining hall
Best contemporary crafting in leather, glass, joinery, and textiles
Continuous occupation since 1543
RIBA Award regional Winner
The Leathersellers' Company has occupied this site continuously since 1543. Whilst earlier halls were located within St Helen’s Place, the new 7th hall has now returned to the site of its earliest historical location. The design showcases some of the best contemporary crafting in leather, joinery, textiles and metalwork.
The interior includes the following principal spaces:
The Court Room sits 29 around a new table. The walls finished in American black walnut panelling alternate with vertical slotted timber reeds. The deep red curtains, white leather chairs, the colours of the carpet and the glint of the crystal cut chandeliers add life and ceremony to the room.
The Reception Room, a light, airy space, speaks to the future more than the past and features a clear and indigo drawn glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly.
The Stair Hall incorporates scagliola pilasters from the sixth hall; these are placed between raised panels of polished plaster in two tones to add to the apparent depth of the surface.
The Dining Hall (see page 23) can host 120 guests seated in three rows and has a clerestory with views to the church wall above. The walls are panelled in American black walnut, alternating in plain and reeded horizontal sections in a similar arrangement to the Court Room. The tapestry frieze, some 60 sqm was commissioned to create bold colour narrative and a sense of a further horizon.
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Assembly feature staircase
Client Four Season Hotel & Resorts
Status Completed 2011 Sector Interiors
5 Star hotel extension
New arrivals, spa and gym
Rooftop views over London parks
One of the capital’s top 5-star hotels, the Four Seasons is located on Hamilton Place, just off Park Lane in London’s exclusive Mayfair district. Dating from 1969, the hotel was in need of refurbishment to preserve its reputation as a luxurious haven.
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.
In developing the design, Eric Parry Architects carried out thorough analysis of the existing services and how massing of a new roof would work with the form of the existing building.
Conservation and Design Officers were closely consulted to achieve a quality of design sympathetic to the hotel’s surroundings and existing building.The vision behind the new extension is a delicate white attic with a dark ebony stove-enamelled metal roof, which overhangs and shades the new glass elevation and complements the existing Portland Stone façades.
The balconies to the north elevation are enclosed with frameless double-glazing to make them usable all year round and increase the area of the rooms in the process.
The form and high quality materials used in the additional storey adds a sophisticated gravitas to the existing building.
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Detail of the granite-lined steam rooms
Steam room Vitality Pool
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Twin bedded VIP treatment space at the prow of the building
Client Green Property Limited
Value £28m
Status Completed 2015
Sector Interiors
60,97 sq ft office space
2,122 sq ft retail and gallery space at ground level
Public art by sculptor
Stephen Cox
The redevelopment of 7 & 8 St James’s Square replaces the building on the corner of St James’s Square and Duke of York Street and incorporates a new basement structure beneath the adjoining building at 7 St James’s Square.
The latter is an elegantly proportioned and detailed listed townhouse designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1911 for the three bachelor Farrer brothers of banking fame, and had become the headquarters of the Royal Fine Art Commission until it was replaced by The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) in 1999. Planning consent has been granted to convert this back in to a single dwelling.
The design for 8 St James’s Square, to replace the ill-proportioned existing building, is a rigorously crafted modern brick elevation to the square. This elevation echoes the original scale and detailing, typical of its urban setting, most closely exemplified in Chatham House, 9 St James’s Square, to the immediate west side of Duke of York Street.
The new building is a finely considered contribution which is sensitive to the existing urban fabric. The redevelopment provided the opportunity to create a 5,639 sqm office building with potential for 1,187 sqm of gallery or retail at ground level which would contribute to the commercial and public gallery life of this area.
The project included a commission for a significant new work of public art by the distinguished sculptor Stephen Cox. This was conceived as a historical link to Edwin Lutyens: after his completion of No.7, the Farrer family offered Sir Edwin Lutyens the use of the existing stable mews building in Apple Tree Yard as an architectural studio. It was at the time that his practice was expanding for the many government commissions in New Delhi, India.
Left
View from St James's Square
Opposite
Apple Tree Yard & Duke of York Street
Overleaf
View of reception area with coffered
ceiling and bespoke privacy shutters
Office washroom facilities
