We’re delighted to be able to announce our Co-Founding Director, Lanre, has been selected to be amongst twelve judges who are overseeing the exciting new Building [Re]Design competition, the Stratford Design Challenge!

Leading names in architecture and influential clients, will be scrutinising entries for the competition which invites participants to identify an urban issue found in Stratford, and to apply some creative and visionary design thinking to it.

Stratford is a place Lanre is very familiar having worked with L&Q, who have headquarters there, for over 5 years to date; so he’s looking forward to seeing what innovative solutions are proposed to address urban challenges seen in the old town centre.

Other members of the judging panel include:

Pam Alexander, urban regeneration specialist, director of London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) and Connected Places Catapult, chair of digital community engagement company Commonplace.

Phil Askew, landscape and placemaking director at Peabody working on £8bn Thamesmead regeneration. From 2008-17 he led on the landscape and public realm transformation of the Olympic Park into the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Kay Hughes, director of design at HS2 Ltd and the former head of design at the Olympic Delivery Authority and senior project sponsor at the Foreign Office.

Leanne Tritton, founder and managing director of ING Media, the built environment communications specialists, and incoming chair of the London Society.

Keith Waller, development director of Costain and programme director of the government’s Construction Innovation Hub, working with government, academia and industry to transform construction.

For more information and how to apply, please see the press launch here.