Terry Brown
Senior Partner
GMW Architects
Terry is a senior partner of GMW Architects and has a broad range of experience in leading the design team, often on complex projects in sensitive settings and incorporating historic buildings. Committed to an ecological design approach, he is closely involved in all the design activities of the practice and is editor of GMW’s newspaper – Issues. He works with the practice’s Design Strategy Unit on many individual projects, taking a personal and active interest in conceptual design, design management, urban design and Town Planning matters.
He has recently worked on office and mixed-use schemes in Westminster, the City, and the London Boroughs of Camden, Merton and Southwark, together with residential and mixed use developments in Birmingham, Moscow, Cairo and Malta. He was the design partner on a new headquarters for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a low-energy building and pioneer of on-site renewable energy. His interest in sustainability is matched by an enthusiasm for the synergy between new-build and historic conservation as illustrated by 41 Lothbury, a Grade II* listed building in the City, successfully adapted to high quality modern office space. He is currently working on commercial projects for well-regarded developers including Grosvenor and Hines.
Urban design and master planning experience includes a major study of the Victoria Station site for Railtrack and a framework study and town centre vision for Ilford for the London Borough of Redbridge.
In a career spanning some 35 years, Terry has been Involved in securing planning consents for several sensitive sites in the City of London, including the pre-‘Gherkin’ Baltic Exchange (30 St Mary Axe) and Faraday Buildings. He was design partner for 54 Lombard Street (originally the Barclays Bank HQ) and Minster Court, Mincing Lane, a major speculative office development for the Prudential. Beyond central London major projects completed include the master plan and design studies for the land vacated by St Enoch Station and the design of the award winning St Enoch Shopping Centre in Glasgow. A microchip production, research and office facility in Kent provided an insight into technically sophisticated buildings on a difficult and congested site.
