David Sinclair Email & Phone Number

Lisbon, Portugal

Sintra, Portugal

Independent lead architect with over 35 years of experience of the design and coordination of major projects for hotel, hospitality and leisure projects.Key projects include 6 resort hotels for the Pestana Group in Madeira and Porto Santo and 3 Pousadas (Historic Hotels) involving complex refurbishment of existing buildings in major Portuguese.

Cascais, Portugal

St George e Sinclair carried on some of the work from BDP’s ‘pilot’ Lisbon Office and built up an interesting curriculum in a period of about 8 years. Work included agencies for Banco Espirito Santo, headquarters / administrative buildings for Textil Manuel Gonçalves and RAR Refinárias de Açucar Reunidas. Interior design fit outs included a further phase.

BDP’s office in Lisbon came into Portugal following the opening of the HQ for Banco Espirito Santo in Lisbon for which Alan St George had been the architect. We carried out further work for BESCL, and the HQ for BPI Banco Portugues de Investimentos in Porto. Several attempts were made to enter the tourist sector and we carried out major design work with.

1A Cavendish Square, London

This was effectively my "Practical Experience Year" as defined by the RIBA. IPDS was set up between Nigel Moor Associates and Cubitts and had powerful partners. The objective was to instigate major planning work both in UK and abroad. It was still in the "incubation" phase when I joined and we developed work for several UK housing developments in Wales and.

London, United Kingdom

Macdonald Educational had overcrowded offices in Soho, London, which they loved. Leaving college, and advert was put on the board for a student architect to oversee their moving to new offices in the City (which they didn't like so much) for which I applied. My job was to laise with the architects and builders of the new offices and organize the whole move.

My "year out" in the middle of the RIBA course, It was an enriching experience. I worked on refit projects for Boots, Barclays Bank, and two new schools near Nottingham. The office handled both one off and standardized housing and I was involved in projects a contemporary house, a set of four "Georgian" houses, and setting out drawings for a major housing.

Architecture

Riba Part 1, Architecture

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