Paul Zara

Director

Based in our Brighton studio, Paul trained at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London and has worked on major mixed-use developments including the 4.5 hectare Butler’s Wharf site by Tower Bridge, London, both on masterplanning the site and the detail design of several buildings within the development.

He has led retail and restaurant projects including the Bluebird Garage project in Chelsea and Ocean Terminal, a £100million retail and leisure building in Leith, Edinburgh’s port. He also designed the Canary Wharf venue for Tony Blair’s Anglo-French Summit and led the redesign of the Labour Party headquarters at Millbank, as well as several office projects in Hammersmith & Fulham for Lord Heseltine’s company, Haymarket Publishing.

More recent work has focused on major and award winning housing schemes in London and around the UK. He has been director in charge of public and private sector residential projects for Land Securities, Delancey, Affinity Sutton, Hanover Housing, Stonehurst Estates and Q Developments, alongside working with private clients.

He is currently working on major housing schemes in Ealing and Walthamstow, but also a number of commercial and leisure projects around the UK.

Since 1999, he has served as a Civic Trust Awards Assessor and in 2007 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. He is an occasional contributor to architectural and design publications.