t.colman@colmanarchitects.co.uk
Trevor Colman is the founder member of Colman Architects. He worked in Qatar and London prior to setting up his own practice in 1988.
Since that time Colman architects has become acknowledged as one of the leading architectural practices in Great Britain. Recognised expertise in Retail and Commercial design has resulted in commissions in Europe and the rest of the World. The Practice ethos of sustainability and responsible design is at the heart of all the Commercial, Masterplanning, Hotels and Residential projects completed by the Practice.
Trevor has taken this commitment to sustainability into the design of his new home. It is designed to be a net zero carbon project including Ground Source Heat Pump, Solar PV and Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery as well as high grade insulation and building sealing systems.
Trevor spends most of his spare time with his five children who are quite a handful but are his pride and joy. For enjoyment (and frustration) Trevor plays golf at Goodwood and is an Arsenal season ticket holder.
Associated projects Motorway Service Station - M25, Greater London Vancouver Quarter, King's Lynn Private dwelling - Slindon - South Downs National Park 93-95 High Street Epsom Fishergate Shopping Centre, Preston Bargate, Southampton Walton Library/Elmbridge Community Hub NCIC Masterplan - Chengdu Barcelona - Diagonal Mar Galeria Pomorska Capitol Centre Maximilianhoff Letchworth Garden City Jing Tang, China Walton, Waterside Drive Walthamstow Library
d.liddell@colmanarchitects.co.uk
David Liddell has over 30 years of experience, 29 of which have been with Colman Architects. He became a Director in 1999 and has successfully designed and delivered a wide range of high quality Retail, Leisure, Mixed-Use and Commercial buildings through close proactive leadership of project teams.
His award winning projects include The Plaza, Oxford Street, London and The Stafford Hotel St. James’s Place, London.
David’s specialist expertise in Offices created the space that established a World Record rent in London’s St. James’s Square in 2007.
He has recently led the design of another prestigious office project in London’s Kensington, together with a range of retail and leisure regeneration initiatives.
David has completed Macmillan Cycling Challenges across Iceland, Mexico, Mongolia and Brazil. He is a car enthusiast and maintains a keen interest in Astronomy, travel, cycling and (mostly Scottish) football.
Associated projects 99 Kensington High Street 24 Connaught Street, London, W2 75-81 George Street, Richmond, London Burwood Place, London W2 Elmsleigh Centre - Phase 3 120 Oxford Street & Colegrave House, London Ladygate Lane, Ruislip The Water Gardens, London, W2 1 Sussex Gardens, London, W2 44 Connaught Street, London 11 Connaught Street, London, W2 17 Connaught Street, Connaught Village, London 14-18 Newton Road, Bayswater, London 65 Connaught Street, Connaught Village, London 2 Bathurst Street, Connaught Village, London Stafford Hotel, St James's Place 7 Porchester Place, Connaught Village, London Connaught Village Decathlon - Elmsleigh Centre, Staines 21 Connaught Street, London, W2 St James's Square, London THE ROCK, Bury - “Block A” 25 Connaught Street, Connaught Village, London Primark, Elmsleigh Shopping Centre, Staines-upon-Thames High Wycombe, Eden Centre, Decathlon Broad Walk, Harlow 12 Porchester Place, Connaught Village, London The Harvey Centre, Cineworld & Mall, Harlow Mascolo Space, Battersea 5a Bathurst Street, London Essex Police Headquarters Eden Walk, High Wycombe Newbury Cinema, Kennet Centre Elmsleigh Shopping Centre Elmsleigh Centre - Phase 2 Orchard Shopping Centre, Orchard Square, Sheffield Queen's House, London EC4 Friary Street, Phoenix Court, Guildford Health Club - Holmes Place, Clapham Lloyds Court, Milton Keynes UK House, Oxford Street, London Hungry Tiger Lion Yard, Cambridge Flood Street Audrey House, London EC1 One Bridge Avenue, Maidenhead Anthropologie, Antiquarius, King's Road The Plaza, Oxford Street Health Club - Hendon
Simon Hastings
Director
BA (Hons) Dip Arch
s.hastings@colmanarchitects.co.uk
Simon Hastings joined the Practice in 1990 having gained experience in London and also Saudi Arabia and North Carolina, USA.
Simon has considerable experience in large scale retail projects, completing the extension and refurbishment of The Mall Shopping Centre in Blackburn which won a BCBC Gold Award and the Kingsway Shopping Centre in Newport – with its award winning Car Park. His work in Health Club design has developed the Leisure experience and Mixed-Use areas of the Practice’s experience. This included a number of projects for Holmes Place Health Clubs in Britain and designs for health clubs in France and Hong Kong.
Simon took a two year sabbatical in Hong Kong to develop awareness of Asian markets, design and working methods, returning in 1998 to become a Director with Colman Architects.
Outside work Simon enjoys watching and playing tennis. He also likes to visit places of architectural interest and has a real eye for detail so often returns from his excursions with some great shots on his camera.
Associated projects Circus , Liverpool Stamford Square, Stamford Quarter, Altrincham The Department, Lewis's Building, Liverpool The Mall, Blackburn The Xchange, Bradford Emlyn Square - Newport Newport, Kingsway Centre, Car Park Kingsway Centre, Newport Langney Shopping Centre Clarendon House, Stamford New Road, Altrincham Moor House School & College - Student Village Longus House, Chester 99p Stores, Albert Square, Widnes Blackburn - Ainsworth Mall Albert Square, Widnes (UBS) Quadrant Centre, Swansea Union Gate, Bristol Health Club - Oxford Street Plaza Health Club - Nottingham Health Club - Streatham Health Club - Kensington Health Club - Notting Hill
Chris Corner
Senior Associate
BA (Arch) (Hons) Dip Arch RIBA APM
c.corner@colmanarchitects.co.uk
Before joining Colman Architects, Chris worked for the Engineering consultancy, Halcrows in the Middle East. He was resident architect at Sharjah Airport, UAE, The Port of Jubail, Saudi Arabia and for the palaces of the late King Hussein of Jordan.
Having been at college with Trevor Colman, Chris was invited to join his practice, Duffy Colman Anderson in April 1990 which later became Colman Architects of which Chris was a founder member so he has been with the practice for 30 years. His early projects with the firm include Boots Corner, Glasgow; The Quadrant, Swansea and The Capitol Centre, Cardiff. His landscape design for Kirkby Shopping Centre won an award from the BCSC. Apart from retail refurbishment schemes, Chris was the associate responsible for Colliers House, Brompton Road, London, developing unoccupied office floors into 8 prime location, residential apartments.
In 2005, Chris obtained his qualifications as a project manager and, in this capacity, successfully completed the transformation of The Headrow Centre into The Core in Leeds.
Chris was recently responsible for the £17 million redevelopment of The Mander Centre,Wolverhampton and the £5.7 million redevelopment of Festival Park, Basildon. His latest completion was the development of the Vancouver Quarter,King’s Lynn to provide a 20,000sq.ft.retail unit for H&M.
Colman Architects is very keen to encourage students with an interest in Architecture and Chris coordinates placements at the Practice throughout the year.
Outside work, Chris’ interests include choral music (a fine baritone voice), gardening (a no-chemicals policy which the weeds love) and grandchildren (currently 5 but likely to increase).
Associated projects Vancouver Quarter, King's Lynn Festival Leisure Park, Basildon - Phase 2 - Public Realm Works Mander Centre, Wolverhampton Festival Leisure Park, Basildon Galeria Pomorska - Food Court Collier House, Knightsbridge Friary Street, Phoenix Court, Guildford Tower Park Leisure, Poole Moor House School & Sixth Form College Quadrant Centre, Swansea Star City, Birmingham West Favell, Northampton
Steve Hetherington
Senior Associate
BA (Hons), Dip Arch
A graduate of the Oxford School of Architecture and a joint winner of the national RIBA and British Gas Energy Design Awards 1994, Steve worked for Shepherd Construction and Lanchester & Lodge before joining Colman Architects in 1999.
Steve has a lot of experience in retail design and in shopping centres projects in particular. These have included Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre, The Elmsleigh Centre (Staines upon Thames), Centrale (Croydon), W12 Shopping Centre (Shepherds Bush), the Mall (Blackburn) and Fishergate Shopping Centre (Preston). Steve was project architect on both phases of the acclaimed refurbishment and reconfiguration of the Elmsleigh Shopping Centre - a scheme that was shortlisted for the BCSC Gold Award In-town Retail Scheme (300,000 sq ft or less) 2008. He has just seen the completion of the 25m Euro extension and refurbishment of Galeria Pomorska in Bydgoszcz, Poland where he acted as concept architect for Resolution Property.
In addition to retail projects Steve has experience in leisure and healthcare design and has worked on numerous commercial projects such as Grosvenor House in Croydon,UK House on Oxford St. London W1 and Queens House London EC4.
A fan of popular science, "undefeatable" at cue sports and a dab hand at dance music composition and production, Steve has sites on Youtube, Myspace music and Soundcloud (if your ears can take it)!
Associated projects Elmsleigh Centre - Phase 3 Fishergate Shopping Centre, Preston Decathlon - Elmsleigh Centre, Staines Primark, Elmsleigh Shopping Centre, Staines-upon-Thames Emlyn Square - Newport Galeria Pomorska Galeria Pomorska - Food Court Elmsleigh Shopping Centre Elmsleigh Centre - Phase 2 Longus House, Chester Queen's House, London EC4 Blackburn - Ainsworth Mall 84-90 Lordship Lane, Dulwich, London UK House, Oxford Street, London Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre
Denny Laban
Associate
BA (Hons), MArch
d.laban@colmanarchitects.co.uk
A graduate of the famed Liverpool School of Architecture, Denny first joined Colman Architects following the completion of his professional qualification and registration as an Architect.
Prior to joining the practice, Denny gained significant experience in large scale residential projects, focusing on the design and delivery of both multiple private and affordable housing schemes throughout the UK. Whilst many of the larger housing developments undertaken were New Build projects, Denny was also employed on numerous schemes relating to the conservation, refurbishment and redevelopment of existing and listed buildings including the joint extension and conversion of an 1850’s orphanage, within a Conservation Area of Islington, into 33 private residential units with an integrated children’s nursery located below a central courtyard. He has also assisted on the phased refurbishment of the Grade 2* listed Midland Hotel in Manchester.
Denny has continued to work on the refurbishment of heritage assets during his time at Colman Architects and is currently the Senior Architect on renovation projects within the East Marylebone Conservation Area and at the Grade 2* listed Kensington Roof Gardens. Whilst primarily involved in the design and realisation of retail projects, Denny is also currently in the process of delivering a £5m cinema in Harlow, Essex and an upmarket office scheme in Central London.
Having previously competed in the West Essex Championships at athletics, Denny is a keen sportsman and currently represents a number of football teams during the course of the week. When outside of the UK, Denny also enjoys to Scuba Dive, and has obtained an Advanced Open Water PADI Qualification, affording him the opportunity to have dived at some of the best dive sites around the world.
Associated projects 99 Kensington High Street Circus , Liverpool 75-81 George Street, Richmond, London 120 Oxford Street & Colegrave House, London The Department, Lewis's Building, Liverpool The Harvey Centre, Cineworld & Mall, Harlow The Xchange, Bradford
Tom Davis
Senior Design Assistant
t.davis@colmanarchitects.co.uk
Tom comes from a creative background, previously working as a designer for a small graphics studio in his hometown of Cape Town, South Africa. He joined Colman Architects in 2007, and throughout this time he has refined his design background through collaboration on a variety of projects.
With his keen interest of computer technology, Tom has become our ‘go to’ tech guru at Colman Architects and always has his finger on the pulse when it comes to ensuring that we are up to date in this fast evolving field.
Tom is a keen sportsman. Outside the office he will often be found playing hockey, golf or snowboarding on the slopes.
The Company
The ethos of Colman Architects is to work closely with Clients and use our extensive experience in Master Planning, Offices, Residential, Retail, Leisure, Interior Design, Mixed Use and repurposing to create sustainable, thriving, active environments in both new build and existing buildings.
The size of the firm, between 20-25 architects, enables the board of Directors to have an intimate knowledge of every project from start to
finish. The strong senior management team has developed over many years and every person is an expert in their respective field. They are responsible for the practice’s reputation for quality control and hands on management.
We will work with you to make every opportunity the best it can be.
Our Process
This has been developed over our 25+ years of successfully delivering construction projects and follows the principles established in the RIBA’s Plan of Work.