Meg Johannessen: Landscape Architect, Advisor to Natural England This park is one of the only places in London where I can forget I’m in London. I..

Anna Liu & Mike Tonkin: Tonkin Liu Architects We met in Hong Kong in 1994 with an interest in dismantling current myths and creating our..

Professor Rachel Cooper OBE: Distinguished Professor, Lancaster University I have lived in Poynton for 46 six years. Despite spending periods in the USA for sabbaticals..

Rita Brar: Strategic Planner Having lived in and experienced the beauties of both historic Cambridge, where my grandfather spent his life after emigrating from North..

Joel Mills, AoU My office is three blocks away from the National Mall. I have had a relationship with this grand gathering space throughout my..

Simon Allford: RIBA President, and founder partner AHMM Architects I am an architect, born to an architect father.  I grew up with him, my mother..

Giulia Vallone: Senior Architect, Cork City Council With every return home to Sicily, there are places I visit that never cease to replenish my creative..

Angela Brady OBE: PPRIBA, Architect and Design Champion. For years we wanted to build our own office, or create it as part of a development..

Steffen Lehmann: Urbanist My choice of place had to be Venice! The Italian city is simply too unique and memorable not to rank at the..

Rob Ramwell: Former Estate Management Officer Hulme in Manchester holds a very special place in my heart. I moved into the (usually preceded by infamous..

Chris Lethbridge: Artist I work in arts and creative industry development and management. I’m also a somewhat sporadic artist based in St Just-in-Penwith, West Cornwall,..

Satpal Kaur: Design Activist I come from a generation of builders who travelled from pre-partition India to Kenya under British colonial rule and finally arrived..

Sir Terry Farrell – Architect and urbanist I grew up in a prefab on a housing estate to the north of Newcastle, the edge of..

Shevaughn Rieck – Architect I have been at Farrells London since my placement as a Part I at Newcastle University. 15 years later, I am still..

Hélène Rudlin – Garden Designer I spent my formative years in the Perigord Noir and I think the hiraeth I felt, during the intervening years..