Judges

Nick joined Hodder and Partners in 2010 and is the project architect for the redevelopment and masterplanning of the buildings adjacent Piccadilly Station, Manchester. The project includes the refurbishment of the Seifert designed, Gateway House into a 300 bed hotel, a new office block, a large retail development and health spa.

Previously with another Manchester firm, Nick spent 9 years with Stephenson Bell, winning several RIBA Housing Design Awards for projects such as Lobb Lane Mill in Nelson and Shirecliffe New Homes in Sheffield.

It is this aspiration of improving the quality of the nation’s housing, whether it be social, student or high end, that is Nick’s passion. The RIBA stating that his social housing work for Sheffield Council being “one of the country’s most important projects”.

Nick studied at the Liverpool School of Architecture gaining distinction for his thesis work and received several school awards. Nick often returns to Liverpool University as an external critic.
 

In 2005 Glasgow City Council appointed its first City Design Adviser. Gerry Grams, a graduate of the Mackintosh School of Architecture, is tasked with achieving design excellence in all future physical development.
 
With over 25 years experience, he has won several architectural awards, and worked with many well-established architectural firms on such prestigious projects as Crown Street, The Merchant City and Graham Square – now critically acclaimed award winning areas of Glasgow. His current corporate role involves pre-application discussions, master-planning, site briefs and other design related activities, and is currently involved in major regeneration projects such as Clyde Gateway, Forth and Clyde Canal Design framework, the Riverside Museum and Glasgow’s delivery the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Gerry has recently become an Honorary Professor at Glasgow School of Art, and has been instrumental in setting up the ‘Glasgow Urban Laboratory’ – collaboration between the City Council, The Mackintosh School of Architecture and the profession in order to examine real issues affecting Glasgow, and to put the city at the forefront of regeneration research.
 
He has been a member of the Academy of Urbanism since its inception in 2005 and recently led Glasgow’s successful bid to become European City of the Year.

Gillian joined Penoyre & Prasad in 1999 and became a Partner in 2004. She has extensive experience in the design of learning environments, combined with a pragmatic interest in the relationship between high quality design and the constraints and challenges of modern procurement processes. Her recent projects include the award-winning Merchants’ and Wren Academies. In 2009 she was appointed as a member of CABE's National Design Review panel. Gillian's consultancy work includes Client Design Advice, Design Quality Indicator facilitation and working as a Design Surgeon for Urban Design London.
               
She studied at the University of Cambridge where she graduated with distinction before continuing her training at Harvard. Prior to joining the practice she was project architect on the innovative and award winning Straw Bale House in Islington for Sarah Wigglesworth Architects. Gillian has taught at The Architectural Association, the University of Cambridge, Kingston University and Greenwich University. She is also an external examiner at The University of Manchester and University of East London.  She is a regular conference speaker and contributor to Radio 4's Learning Curve, Teachers' TV and the RIBA Journal.
 

Richard designed and administered the RIBA award-winning Perthcelyn Community Primary School, in Mountain Ash, which attracted substantial coverage in architectural publications, Department for Education guidance documents, television and radio. More recently, Richard has been project architect for the multiple award-winning Academy of St Francis of Assisi in Liverpool which was described in The Independent as “Britain’s Greenest School”. In its first year of opening the school achieved the highest rating of any school in the UK in the ‘value-added’ school league tables.
 
He is a Design Council CABE schools design review panel member and a regular speaker at national conferences. He has written for the Architects' Journal Building Studies Series, has served as a RIBA regional awards juror, and is a registered RIBA Competitions Advisor.
 
He has recently led the architectural delivery of a series of new-build and refurbished school projects on three BSF projects in Wolverhampton, Nottingham and Much Wenlock, and is also currently engaged with the design and construction of a community centre for widows in Uganda.
 

Stephen Hodder was educated at the School of Architecture, University of Manchester, where he gained a Distinction in the Bachelor of Architecture degree. Following University he joined Building Design Partnership in 1981 and became a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1982. He has been in practice since 1983.

Hodder + Partners has now won over major thirty awards, most notably the Royal Fine Art Commission / Sunday Times Building of the Year Award for Colne Swimming Pool in 1992, and the inaugural Stirling Prize for Architecture for the Centenary Building, University of Salford in 1996.

Stephen has written and lectured widely, has been a visiting examiner at a number of schools of architecture and was until recently the visiting professor at the Birmingham School of Architecture. He regularly acts as an assessor for architectural competitions and awards systems. He was awarded an MBE for services to architecture in the Queens Birthday Honours List, 1998. He received an honorary doctorate in 2006 from the Manchester Metropolitan University for his regional, national and international contribution to architecture and won the Roses Design Award of ‘Architect of the Year’ in the same year.

He is currently RIBA Vice President Membership, Nations and Regions and sits on design review panels for both Design Council CABE and Places Matter!

“Adrian Griffiths trained at Oxford Brookes University (formerly Oxford Polytechnic) in both Architecture and Urban Design.  He joined Chapman Taylor in 1985, becoming a Director in 1995 focusing on the design of complex mixed-use regeneration projects.

Adrian is committed to blending both architecture and urban design, and has for many years been promoting the benefits of mixed-use developments, the majority of which have been retail-led.  Notable UK examples include Whitefriars in Canterbury, Princesshay Exeter, and Cabot Circus in Bristol – all award-winning schemes and recognised as exemplar projects, setting new standards for this form of development.

His expertise in this field is recognised internationally.”
 

Duncan works as a collaborating Partner with Terry Farrell and Partners and has been involved in the practice since 1987, founding the practice’s Edinburgh office in 1992 and subsequently leading all projects in Scotland.  In 2004, Duncan took the step of founding his own design practice and continues his collaboration with Farrells on many key projects.

Duncan has extensive practical experience, not just in formulating an approach to the design of projects, but in their application and delivery, with a particular emphasis on advocacy.

Duncan has worked on projects from the MI6 Headquarters building in London, the Edinburgh International Conference Centre and neighbouring OneSpa for the Sheraton, to the radical conversion of Edinburgh’s Dean Gallery, through to urban regeneration projects in Irvine Bay, Paisley and East Glasgow.  More recently Duncan has been involved in developing strategies for the redevelopment of the Earls Court area in London, as well as looking at renewing Newcastle and Gateshead’s Quaysides.

Duncan’s approach is concerned with the significance given to an understanding of context and utilising this to allow the improvement of the public realm: unless the nature of the place is thoroughly examined and understood, it is not possible to propose a meaningful intervention.
 

Jim Heverin joined Zaha Hadid Architects in 1997 and since become an Associate Director leading many of the practice’s major projects. He has undertaken various projects in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia. Working closely with a wide variety of clients this has involved designing and delivering projects to a range of regulation, procurement and construction standards.

He worked on several competitions including the IIT Campus Center, the CAC Rome, the Cordoba Congress Centre and the EPFL Learning Centre. He was the project architect for the Mind Zone (RIBA Award 2000), an exhibition building in the Millennium Dome and the first of the Serpentine summer pavilion projects for the Serpentine Gallery in London (2000). Previous other projects include JVC Hotel, Guadalajara, Mexico (2001), the Innsbruck Ski Jump Austria (2002) and Neues Stadt Casino in Basel, Switzerland (2004).

Recently completed projects as an project architect are the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, which opened in May 2005 and won the 2005 Deutsche Bau Preis, the Maggies Fife Cancer Care Centre, Kirkcaldy completed 2006 and the the Vina Tondonia Pavilion, Rioja, Spain completed in 2007. Recent major projects as a project director are: the Glasgow Riverside Museum of Transport; the CMA CGM Head Office Tower in Marseille, France; and the London Aquatics Centre within the Olympic Park Master plan for the London 2012 Games.

David Judge is the Executive Creative Director and Co-founder of Start JudgeGill The UK based Brand, Digital and Environment agency

He is an Brand and Retail Experience designer with 22 years in the industry working with some of the best agencies in the world (Landor, Conran and Imagination) creating multi awarding winning experiences for Global brands such as Virgin, Diagio, Philip Morris, McLaren, BP, BAT, Ford, DeBeers, P&G, IBM, DVLA, PWC, Tropicana, Marlboro and adidas, Fred Perry, MTS

His passion lies in creating dynamic interactive experiences for brands and companies to engage and entertain their customers or staff and is a specialist is in how environments can effect people emotionally and sensorially.

David understands how environmental design works as part of a brand strategy and is passionate about pushing the limits of this design sector.

Connected retail is a strategy he has been developing for over four years now and believes this year is the tipping point for the rebirth of retail design for our connected future.
 

As Executive Creative Director, Glenn has worked with clients such as Bass, Boots, Diageo, The Royal Mail and SABMiller.  Glenn then went on to co-found Tutssels, with it’s then sister company Lambie Nairn, creating the unique offer of branding both on and off screen for companies such as Powergen, S4C and BT.  Glenn has won numerous awards for his work including  -  Seven prestigious USE Communication Arts Awards of Excellence.  Six International Clio Awards.  Graphis Gold.  The Royal Mail’s Roland Hill Award.  Four D&AD Silver Awards.  He served on the Executive Committee of D&D for four years and now sits on the Royal Mail Stamp Advisory Committee, in a design advisory capacity.  Glenn is a regular commentator in the Design Industry and presides over many international design.
 

Hector has worked with various design studios over the past 15 years including Wolff Ollins, Moving Brands, Marque, Made Thought, Cartlidge Levene, MetaDesign, and Blue Source.

His work has been recognised with numerous awards including D&AD, ISTD, Art Directors Club Europe and New York. He is regularly featured and quoted in the design press and his work is featured in over 20 design annuals and publications.

He has worked with a wide range of clients and sectors including HTC, Dow Jones, PWC, Hewlett Packard, The Macallan, Orange, Tate Modern; working on three UniLever Turbine Hall shows; Bruce Nauman, Rachel Whiteread and Carsten Holler, global fund managers Baillie Gifford, Palazzo Grassi, Skoda Auto, Design Miami /Basel, Scottish Natural Heritage, Barbican Arts Centre, as well as directly with Turner Prize nominee Nathan Coley. Hector’s signage and way finding experience includes the Barbican Arts Centre, Lords Cricket Ground, Selfridges, Bristol Legible City and Millennium Point Birmingham.

Hector is currently Design Director at Figtree.

An exiled Scot and currently senior designer with award-winning Bristol based creative agency – Taxi Studio. Previously with another Bristol outfit, Robson Dowry, he has gained experience across a broad range of clients, from public sector brands to FMCG. In recent years his focus has been on branded packaging for the alcoholic drinks market.

As a firm believer in the maxim that a designers education is never complete, Pete is involved in the West of England Design Forum, a voluntary body set up by like minded people to enable designers, and those interested in design, to come together and be inspired.

When not googling and doodling; food, wine and music are his passions. Along with tramping the heather and following the highs (and lows) of the Scottish rugby team.