Sarah Wigglesworth Architects is an award-winning practice, known for design excellence across a range of sectors including education, residential, mixed use, culture and community, public realm and urban regeneration. We are looking for two project architects/project runners with a minimum of three years post-registration experience to join our small, hard working team near Kings Cross.
Sarah Wigglesworth Architects is committed to sustainable building so a knowledge of ecological principles and practice is essential.
Successful candidates must be prepared to take a leading role in this ideas-led practice. You will be heading teams working on specialist residential developments so you must have comprehensive knowledge of UK housing standards, relevant design guides and building regulations. You will have excellent design skills, technical know-how, familiarity with building contracts, construction detailing and job-running experience. You must be able to manage deadlines and workloads efficiently, working with other team members and consultants. Confidence, professionalism, friendliness and team-working is as important as being able to take the lead. You must be capable of writing coherently and precisely.
We work on Macs and use Vectorworks; we are currently moving to Vectorworks BIM. We also use Sketchup, Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite. You will need to be experienced in these programmes.
Salary is commensurate with level of experience.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview immediately (before 17 July), with a view to successful candidates’ employment commencing following service of any contractual notice periods.
Unfortunately, we are only able to respond to candidates invited for an interview.
Sarah Wigglesworth Architects is an equal opportunities employer.
Application deadline: July 17, 2015
How to apply
Please send a covering letter of no more than two A4 sides together with a CV and samples of your portfolio work marked PA/06.15 Dezeen in the subject line to Lys@swarch.co.uk or send a hard copy of same to Lys de Beaumont, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, 10 Stock Orchard Street, London N7 9RW. Please quote reference PA/06.15 in your cover letter.
If you are offered the position we will take up references so please include names and phone numbers/email addresses of those we may contact.