Alan Baxter & Associates (ABA) was founded in 1974 as an engineering practice. The practice is now involved with all sizes of projects. These include the engineering design of new structures and the conservation of existing buildings along with strategic transportation and urban design projects.

Alan Baxter & Associates' engineering skills range from advanced architectural engineering to repair and maintenance works. Other projects include masterplanning and infrastructure works, urban regeneration schemes and transport studies, conservation plans and publications.

Thomas Manss & Company worked with the engineers on two literature projects: a booklet for an exhibition at the Geffrye Museum in London and urban planning guidelines titled 'Movements, Streets and Places'.

Founded in 1946 by the consulting engineer Ove Arup, Arup's clients include today virtually every architectural practice of note.

Best known for its involvement with many of the high profile buildings of the post-war years, Arup has made a name for itself in many other aspects of engineering from roads and bridges to indestructible flasks for transporting nuclear waste.

The multidisciplinary approach to design springs in part from Arup’s ownership structure. The firm is owned in trust on behalf of its staff. The result is an independence of spirit that is reflected in the firm’s projects as much as and in its pursuit of technical excellence.

Carla Juaçaba's architecture and research practice in Rio de Janeiro has been described by the Financial Times as one of the most thriving architectural studios in Brazil today.

The practice's private and public projects include the pavilion “Humanidade” for Rio+20, the UN conference on sustainability in Rio de Janeiro, and Brazil's first hospice.

Carla Juaçaba was was awarded the ArcVision Prize for Women in Architecture in 2013.

Chelsfield was established in July 1986 under the direction of Elliott Bernerd and is regarded generally as one of the more energetic and successful property companies quoted on the UK stockmarket.

The group is engaged primarily in central urban property development and investment. Recently, Chelsfield was chosen by London & Continental Railways as their partner for the development of the Stratford city in East London.

The company sees this as an opportunity to create a new metropolitan centre which will help shape subsequent development, not only at Stratford but across East London as a whole.

Chris Dyson can look back on an illustrious career having worked with some of the great and good of British architecture including James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Terry Farrell. Founded in 2004, his practice Chris Dyson Architects has carved out its own niche working on some challenging public and private commissions including many listed buildings.

The practice is based in the historic Spitalfields area of London, where Dyson has lived and worked for more than 20 years, and where many of the practice's early projects are located.

Founded in 1960 by the late Edward Durell Stone Jr and with completed projects on six continents, EDSA has become one of the most influential practices for master planning and landscape architecture.

Today, the company is run by ten principals, each with their own dedicated team and a portfolio that is characterised by its diversity and a single minded dedication to improving people's surroundings.

The company's projects have received more than 250 awards for their innovation as much as their ability to stand the test of time.

Ettwein Bridges is an architectural practice and consultancy based in central London. The office has established a strong reputation for successfully addressing complex design and planning issues.

Much of the company's work involves the design of new buildings in historic settings, often in conjunction with the restoration and adaptation of historic and listed buildings for new uses.

Founded in 1967 as Foster Associates and now known as Foster + Partners, for over four decades the studio has grown to become one of the largest and most respected in the world. Since its inception, the practice has received more than 400 awards and citations for excellence and has won more than 70 international and national competitions.

Foster + Partners has a long a history of producing landmark buildings including the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Swiss Re in the City of London, the Millennium Bridge, the New German Parliament at the Reichstag, the Great Court at the British Museum and Beijing Airport.

Thomas Manss & Company has collaborated with Foster + Partners on a number of projects ranging from identity and exhibition designs to creating a variety of architectural publications.

Grimshaw is an architectural practice with an international reputation for their design-led architecture and rigorous approach to detailing – a practice which is forward looking but nevetheless has strong roots in the heroic structures of Paxton and Brunel.

Waterloo Terminal in London, the Eden Project in Cornwall and the Ludwig-Erhard-Haus in Berlin are some of the highlights from the firms portfolio of public and private buildings.

Hascher Jehle Architecture was founded in 1992 by Rainer Hascher and Sebastian Jehle and is based in Berlin. Since then the pair have built up a strong portfolio of award-winning competitions as well as private and public buildings like the Stuttgart Museum of Art, the DVG office building in Hanover, the University Clinic Halle-Kröllwitz and Terminal West at Berlin-Schönefeld Airport.

Hausverwaltung Manss is a private facility management company with 1, 2 and 3 bedroom flats in the Westphalian town of Gütersloh. The flats were designed and built by the first and second generation of the family and are today managed by the third generation. Unusual for the frequently cut-throat real estate sector is the cooperative relationship between landlord and tenants.

Hodder + Partners was founded in 1983 and offers architectural services across all sectors, including interior design, masterplanning and urban design.

Stephen Hodder eschews the limelight craved by so many of his architect colleagues. Instead his thoughtful and sensitive approach has resulted in his own brand of humane modernism decorated with more than 40 major national awards for buildings as divers as the Colne Swimming Pool and the extension of Arne Jacobsen’s Grade I listed St Catherine’s College in Oxford.

Hopkins Architects is one of Britain's leading architectural practices. Best known for their trademark roof structures like the one at Lord's cricket grounds, the company has completed plenty of office and industrial buildings around the UK.

The New Parliamentary Building (or Portcullis House as it was finally renamed) opposite Big Ben at London's Parliament Square provides office space and retail facilities for the Members of Parliament. Together with the Jubilee Line Station on which foundation it is built, the building is an example of how a thoroughly modern approach can result in a building which is nevertheless sympathetic to its historic surroundings.

John McAslan + Partners is an architectural and design practice with a focus on masterplanning and design for commercial facilities as well as education, transportation, residential and the arts. With an early reputation for rational, detail conscious design, the architects deliver new-build architecture as well as rejuvenating old and historic buildings.

The practice has been awarded World Architect of the Year and Transport Architect of the Year in recent years.

The client list of Kardorff Ingenieure – one of Germany's leading lighting design firms – reads like the 'Who is Who' of architecture and building development. 

The designers' passionate belief that lighting can influence the atmosphere and the mood of our daily lives has led to an enviable string of commissions ranging from Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate to the Al Mas Tower in Dubai and from a small church, close to Berlin's Lietzensee, to BMW's Research and Innovation Centre.



All lighting solutions display the same intellectual rigour and a willingness to engage with new challenges that have become the hallmark of this firm of lighting engineers.

Knippers Helbig is a firm of structural engineers based in Stuttgart. Run by Prof Ian Knippers and Thorsten Helbig the team has specialised in designing efficient and sophisticated structures. Together with clients, architects and contractors Knippers Helbig develop innovative solutions for projects, which require a high level of design and engineering integrity.

LA21 is a team of landscape architects and planners with four offices in Germany. Interdisciplinary cooperation and a holistic approach guarantee the maximum added value for building owners and the successful realisation of projects. The network utilises the specific know-how available at each location building on the strengths of each partner office.

The architecture practice Maybank and Matthews was founded by Alexander Maybank and Clarissa Matthews.

Alexander Maybank was previously an Associate at Rundell Associates working on two projects for White Cube Gallery in Mason's Yard and in Hoxton Square, London.

Clarissa Matthews spent 10 years working for Ian Ritchie Architects, on projects including the London Regatta Centre, the Plymouth Theatre Royal facilities and the White City Central Line Sidings.

Founded by Douglas James in 1997, Mindseye's designers and lighting consultants collaborate today with some of the most innovative and forward thinking architects and interior designers.

The team takes a leaf out of Massimo Vignelli's book. The Italian designer once mused that he liked his "designs memorable, appropriate, well crafted and above all intellectually elegant".

Mindseye's projects for German car manufacturer BMW, international banking giant HSBC and London's Barbican Arts Centre and White Cube Galleries display the same careful thought and rigorous attention to detail that can be found in their luminaire designs for lighting manufacturer Whitegoods.

The Norman Foster Foundation aims to bring together leading thinkers, practitioners and researchers in the fields of architecture, design, technology and the arts.The Foundation promotes interdisciplinary thinking and encourages the transfer of advanced knowledge through its initiatives and programmes.

In addition, the Foundation is responsible for the conservation and dissemination of the Norman Foster archive – drawings and plans; photographic materials; models; correspondence, personal sketchbooks and memorabilia from the 1950s to the present day.

Openstudio is an international practice engaged with the design of buildings, interiors, furniture and landscapes. Based in London, they work in the UK, South Africa, New Zealand and the US.

Openstudio is a collaborative practice that is committed to the exploration of meaning in architecture through the making of spaces, objects and places.

Founded in 1996, Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects has the experience and knowledge base of an established practice with more than 25 years’ experience. At the same time it has the advantages of the drive and ambition of a young practice. In a short period of time the practice has built up a strong reputation and won numerous architectural awards.

The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional membership organisation and aims to advance architecture by demonstrating benefit to society and promoting excellence in the profession.

The organisation's HQ is in a fine Grade II-listed 1930s building, designed by Grey Wornum, at the junction of Portland Place and Weymouth Street in London W1.

The building houses an extensive architecture bookshop, a café with outdoor terrace, galleries hosting exhibitions, lecture theatres for talks, and is home to one of the finest architectural libraries in the world.

This London firm of architects was launched by Michael Squire in 1976, and quickly achieved a reputation for sensitivity to place and context, and concern for careful detail. The practice has developed its own brand of regional modernism.

The essence of the Squire approach is reconciling a modern structure with a skin which is both rational and modern, and equally urban and contextual.

Over a period of 30 years the practice of James Stirling and Michael Wilford has designed numerous highly acclaimed buildings including the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, the Clore Gallery at the Tate, No1 Poultry in the City of London and the Lowry Centre in Walsall.

For somebody who first wanted to be a poet and then an artist, Massimiliano Fuksas has made rather a big name for himself in architecture. Best known for his imaginative structures and bold shapes, he runs Studio Fuksas together with his wife Doriana.

With offices in Rome, Paris and Shenzhen, the practice has been designing masterplans, offices, residential and public buildings, infrastructure projects, cultural, leisure and retail centres as well as interiors and products for more than four decades and has scooped up numerous awards along the way.

In addition, Fuksas was the Director of the “VII Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia” and has been the author of the architecture column in the Italian magazine “L'Espresso” since 2000.

Wilkinson Eyre Architects are among the UK's leading practitioners and are responsible for a high-profile portfolio of national and international projects.

The Practice has designed highly successful projects in diverse market sectors including transport, culture, commercial, infrastructure and bridge design.

Zaha Hadid is an architect who consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design. Her work experiments with new spatial concepts intensifying existing urban landscapes in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic. Zaha Hadid is best known for built works like the Vitra Fire Station, Land Formation-One, Bergisel Ski Jump, Strasbourg Tram Station and Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art in Cincinatti.

Architectural and interior design firm Zoom/TPU was founded by Atilla Kuzu and Levent Çirpici in 1994 and has made a name for itself with futuristic interiors for hospitals, housing, hotels and office buildings. Architectural critic Philip Jodidio observes that “the success of Zoom/TPU in the hospital design field in Turkey has been such that they may well have done away with the very image of the ‘old-fashioned’ hospital.”

The name Zoom/TPU actually offers an insight into the company’s design process: ‘zooming in’ on details of their work ranging from construction plans to custom-designed furniture. TPU stands for ‘Tasarim Proje Uygulama’ Turkish for ‘Design Project Implementation’ – an indication that the designers see through their projects from the initial sketches right down to the smallest details of material, form and construction.