Finance Monthly Global Awards 2018 Edition

CONSTRUCTION ADVISER OF THE YEAR Areas of Expertise • Architecture • Planning • Masterplanning • Building Design • Project Management • Feasibility Studies Contact Paul Vick Architects 80-82 Chiswick High Road, W4 1SY, London Tel: 02079936573 Web: www.paulvick.co.uk Email: anav@paulvick.co.uk Paul Vick Credit: Paul Vick Architects Finance Monthly Global Awards 2017 www.finance-monthly.com 38 UNITED KINGDOM About Paul Vick In 2007 Paul Vick established Paul Vick Architects to creatively bring together forward-looking technology and knowledge advances to architecture. The practice aims to deliver beautiful buildings, large or small, with improved building performance to meet clients’ short and long term needs. Paul’s experience has included projects addressing some of the most significant commercial, cultural and social challenges in Europe, including The British MuseumMasterplan, The Whitecity Development and Portcullis House, as well as a Zero Carbon Strategy for 8000 new homes in London. A variety of projects in UK, USA, Hong Kong and PR China including cultural, education, health care, offices, sports facilities, light industrial and residential also form part of the portfolio. For the four years leading up to running his own practice full time he was running projects of varying sizes and whose total construction value was just over £500m. Originally from near Dartmoor in southwest of UK, Paul graduated from Cambridge University, UK. After a year in professional practice based in Paris, he undertook his second degree in architecture at Oxford Brookes University, UK with an exchange toWashington DC, USA for eight months. Concurrently, he set up six months fieldwork at Tsinghua University, Beijing, PRC during which time he completed his Masters in Development Practices. In 1996, after returning from a year in Hong Kong where he worked on projects in Asia and North America, he qualified as a professional architect (ARB, RIBA). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Firm Profile Paul Vick Architects’ approach to projects delivers value above the norm. As Chartered RIBA architects, the practice offers the full range of services from initial feasibility testing what may work spatially, through planning permission, Building Control, tender and a presence on site. Ongoing works include a conversion and fit out with new external glass bridge to the global headquarters of a telecom company in West London and repurposing a 20acre listed industrial site into 7000sqm of offices and retail, boutique hotel, flats and low energy houses and 80-bed care home. Unusual perhaps for visionary architects, they achieve added value with their particularly engaging approach to understanding their clients’ business values in cultural and commercial settings, as well as a tailored approach to private work. Initially, Paul Vick Architects discuss the client’s business aims and the types of value they are trying to achieve. This is often accompanied by directed research. Paul Vick architects take their wider architectural, urban and artistic viewpoint and tailor a vision to add more value for their clients. It is this deeper, wider vision that allows them to bring clients 100% planning permission record with listed and unlisted buildings, new build and those in conservation areas, ensuring clients secure the potential value of each project Brentford School for Girls, ICT Suite and Theatre Credit: Michael Storey Royal Ordnance Depot, Northampton Credit: Paul Vick Architects