Founder and Director
Bob Ghosh RIBA
Date of Birth: 20th May 1966
Previous Professional Experience
Glenn Howells Architects, Birmingham 1996 - Feb 2003: Director from 2000.
The Dream Factory, Warwick for the Playbox Theatre Company
Description: Young people’s centre of excellence for performing arts
Value: £1.6m
Winner: Commendation Civic Trust Awards 2003, Royal Fine Arts Commission / BSkyB Best Building Awards 2000, Khalatbari Millennium Building of the Year Award 2000, Best Small Project Quality in Construction Awards 2000 , RIBA Yearbook Editors Award 2000
The Courtyard, Hereford’s Centre for the Arts for Herefordshire Council
Description: Lottery funded theatre and arts venue
Value: £4.0m
Timber Wharf, Manchester for Urban Splash
Description: Competition winning design for 180 apartments, live-work and commercial units
Value: £14.7m
Winner: Housing Design Awards 2002, 2003, RIBA Awards 2003 National Homebuilder Design Awards 2005 - Best Brownfield Development, Civic Trust 2004 - Commendation for valuable contribution to the quality and appearance of the environment, Best Apartment Building - National Home Builder Design Awards 2003, Certificate of Excellence - Building Category - Concrete Society Award 2003, Building for Life Standard (Silver award) - CABE, House Builders Federation and The Civic Trust 2003, Finalist Best Residential Building Blueprint Architecture Award 2002
Burton Place, Manchester for Urban Splash
Description: 90 apartments, live-work units and new pedestrian streets
Value: £10.0m
Winner: National Homebuilder Design Awards 2005 - Best Brownfield Development Award, Housing Design Award 2003, Civic Trust Awards 2006
St.Eugene's Court, Irish Quarter, Birmingham for Focus Housing
Description: Conversion of former industrial premises to create 44 sheltered housing units and amenity facilities for Irish community
Value: £2.5m
Urban Splash HQ, Castlefield, Manchester
Description: Design for fit-out of new company headquarters
Value: £1m
Mooch, Castlefield, Manchester
Description: Design for fit-out of contemporary furniture showroom
Value: £200k
Rotunda, Birmingham for Urban Splash
Description: Pre-planning feasibility study for conversion of Grade II listed office building
Value: £25m
The Gardens, Dunstable for Complex Development Projects
Description: New performing arts venue, retail and leisure complex
Value: £15m
Level Seven Architects 1993 – 1996: Project Architect
Seymour Harris Partnership, Birmingham and Bristol 1990 - 1993: Project Architect
ST Walker and Partners, Birmingham 1989-1990: Project Assistant
Barclays Property Holdings, West Region 1987 - 1988: Project Assistant
Graduated: Birmingham School of Architecture 1990
Non-executive roles:
RIBA Awards jury member 2007
Board member of MADE (Midlands Architecture and the Designed Environment), the Architecture Centre for the West Midlands Region 2002 - 2007
Design Review Panel, Urban Vision North Staffordshire 2007
Design Review Panel, NHS Estates Primary Care Trust LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) Projects, West Midlands area 2004 - 2005
Visiting tutor and critic for postgraduate course at Birmingham School of Architecture, University of Central England 2004 - 2007
Visiting lecturer at University of Bath and University of Wolverhampton
Elected membership of RIBA Council (West Midlands Region) 2006
Technical Adviser to ODPM for paper entitled Creating Sustainable Communities 2003
