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According to O’Neill, the biggest challenge of the project was the building of phase 2 over the fully occupied, existing (phase 1) building.

As you walk around the central space there are models clad in towelling robes waiting to shoot Orlebar Brown’s latest swimwear campaign.Then there are the chalked-up notice boards advertising jewellery designer, Daisy’s latest sample sale.

It’s a hive of creative activity.‘You just wouldn’t get this type of inspiration if you were working out of a shed in your garden,’ McLane says, and as if to substantiate her claim, there’s a gruff bark from Wilma, a minuscule, wire-haired dachshund and GWS favourite who has entered the central area.Haley smiles, ‘The glass fronts of the studios are like vignettes into other people’s worlds.

It’s so inspirational.’.She is a strong believer in how an office is a physical representation of who companies are publicly and internally, GWS’s delivery of both urban beauty and an industrious artistic community answers her brief one hundred percent.. KHALIFA ABUBAKAR AND SHAUN OBINNA IHEJETOH, WEST PORT & COMPANY.

Architects Khalifa Abubakar, Shaun Obinna Ihejetoh and Colin Cheng became friends whilst studying at Edinburgh College of Arts in 2006.

After honing their craft at a number of renowned practices in the UK and abroad they came together in 2016 to form the RIBA Chartered architectural practice,.In the end though, everything comes back to people.

In meetings with contractors, and other partners, I've had to present my solutions, and work with others to implement them within the overall design.I was really pleased when my manager gave me a data centre project to lead, from the BIM side.”.

So would you recommend apprenticeships?.“My apprenticeship has shown me what's possible and given me the ambition to go on and do a university degree.