Christophe Egret Email & Phone Number

I am an architect with over 40 years’ practice experience on local and international projects. In 2004, I joined forces with David West, an Urban Designer, to co-found Studio Egret West, an award-winning, dynamic cross platform studio where architecture, urban design and landscape are united to create a unique working environment where city, public realm and buildings speak to each other. I take an active role in the practice’s masterplans (Earls Court, Bratislava Southbank, Digbeth, Mayfield, High Road West, Preston Barracks, & Vicarage Field) and encourage a design by many hands, collaborating with renown and emerging design practices.Our studio operates across multiple sectors.One of my main interests has been housing and its juxtaposition with other mixed uses to establish richer urban places (Clapham Library, New Bermondsey, Caxton Works & The Old Vinyl Factory, Barangaroo, Eastwick & Sweetwater, Cotton Quay, Barking 360, The Rockery, & Bow Common) and I like to explore new typologies that adapt to our changing housing landscape: how can we combine housing with light industry? How can we adapt existing structures to provide buildings with a ‘Second Life’? (Park Hill, Balfron Tower, Smithfield Market & Hayes Park).I am interested in transport hubs – I see them as natural centres of urban life (Brent Cross, East Croydon, London Underground - Design Idiom & The Shoals at Stratford).I have been engaged in the design of schools and workplace incubators, (Erith Primary School & Plus X Innovation, Montpellier’s Maison de la Radio).I have been on many judging panels and teach at the London School of Architecture and frequently lecture on subjects ranging from architecture to sustainable communities, place making and landscape.I like to contribute to thought pieces for the architectural and design press and co-authored “Framing Serendipity, an approach to Evolving Places” – a monograph of Studio Egret West’s work.I moved from Paris to London in 1979 to study at the Architectural Association and spent my formative years working on a number of key projects, notably designing, while a director at Alsop Architects, the Peckham Library (winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2000), the Blizzard Building for the Queen Mary Research Laboratory in Whitechapel, the winning design for the Fourth Grace in Liverpool and the Manchester Millennium Village framework plan.

Listed skills include Urban Design, Architecture, Architectural Design, Urban, and 26 others.