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Edward is an Associate
Director at Arup and has
worked on numerous
heritage buildings, such
as the Great Northern
Hotel, St Pancras Station,
Stoke Park, the Tower
of London and most
recently, Lambeth Palace.
This has given him an
awareness of the potential
complexities of services
strategies, especially in
relation to old buildings.
He has designed many
projects with exemplary
sustainability credentials,
from Oman Botanic
Garden, where not a drop
of water is wasted, to a
net zero carbon hotel
in the Mediterranean.
The Crystal in east
London was the first
building in the world to
achieve LEED Platinum
certification and be rated
BREEAM ‘Outstanding’.
He subsequently worked
on it as a remodelling
project to become
London’s City Hall,
achieving a BREEAM
‘Outstanding’ rating.
Working as a public
health engineer, his areas
of expertise include water
efficiency, alternative
water sources, fire
suppression, green
roofs and complex roof
geometries.
Stephen joined Wright &
Wright in 2005 and
became a partner in 2011.
Key cultural projects
include the awardwinning Lambeth Palace
Library, the remodelling
of the British Academy,
a new Library for
Magdalen College,
Oxford, and an
Enterprise Hub for the
Royal Academy of
Engineering. Stephen has
also worked on several
educational projects,
including St Paul’s
School, London and the
award-winning Newlands
Academy for students
with special educational
needs. In addition to his
leadership in the practice,
Stephen is a member of
Historic England’s
Advisory Committee and
serves as a consultant to
Glass-House Community
Led Design. Stephen
has also taught a second
year design studio in
the Department of
Architecture at the
University of Cambridge
for five years. As an
undergraduate at
Cambridge he won the Sir
Leslie Martin Prize and
the Dissertation Prize.
He then spent a year on a
scholarship at MIT, while
also taking classes at the
Harvard Graduate School
of Design.
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Naila Yousuf is a Partner
at Wright & Wright with
responsibility for several
high profile cultural
projects. A creative
thinker around all aspects
of architectural heritage
and its relationship with
new interventions, as well
as a thoughtful driver of
consultation with
stakeholders and wider
communities, she led the
team on the major
redevelopment of the
Museum of the Home.
Currently, she is project
architect for a new
sustainable student
campus for St Edmund
Hall in north Oxford.
An advocate of
practitioner engagement
in schools, Naila is an
external examiner at
Nottingham University,
mentor at the Royal
College of Art, and leads
a group involved with
the London School of
Architecture’s Partnership
Network. She is also a
member of the Cathedrals
Fabric Commission for
England and regularly
presents at architecture
and museum conferences.
