{"id":139379,"date":"2025-09-15T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/139379\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:42:10","slug":"bdp-appoints-arups-nick-jackson-as-architect-director-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/139379\/","title":{"rendered":"BDP appoints Arup\u2019s Nick Jackson as architect director | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"picture\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nick Jackson_web\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2012924_nickjackson_web_159942.jpg\"   loading=\"eager\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"2550\" height=\"1680\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BDP has appointed one of the architects behind Eric Parry\u2019s original designs for 1 Undershaft to strengthen its office design team across London and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Jackson has been appointed architect director, moving from Arup where he has been a director within the firm\u2019s architecture group for the past seven years.<\/p>\n<p>He has recently led Arup\u2019s team on British Land\u2019s latest science and innovation hub at 1 Triton Square, and office block near Euston station which Arup designed in the 1990s and then refurbished in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Arup, Jackson was a director at Eric Parry for two decades where he led teams on major projects including the original competition-winning design for 1 Undershaft, the City of London\u2019s tallest building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0887-SK-Arup-1Triton-003 (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2012923_0887skarup1triton0031_143060.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"800\" height=\"517\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He also worked on 10 Fenchurch Street, 1 Eagle Place and the Stirling Prize-shortlisted 5 Aldermanbury Square and 30 FInsbury Square while at Eric Parry.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson first collaborated with BDP around ten years ago on the new headquarters for Cambridge Assessment for the University of Cambridge, a project which he said was an example of BDP\u2019s \u201cdeep understanding of workplace culture and behaviour\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding on BDP\u2019s multidisciplinary capability, that approach reflects the ethos I want to bring to the sector today,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eric Parry 1 Undershaft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2012922_parry-2.jpg\"  loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"1352\" height=\"2048\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the nature of the workplace becomes more diverse in the way it is utilised, flexibility and longevity are even more important for the success of projects we design today. I am looking forward to working with colleagues and clients to shape workplaces that are inspiring, sustainable and commercially successful,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>BDP chair of design and head of workplace Mark Simpson described Jackson as an \u201coutstanding addition to our team\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe brings a wealth of experience in designing workplaces that respond to both business needs and human experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis knowledge of commercial architecture in London and internationally will strengthen our integrated design offer and enhance the value we can deliver for clients,\u201d Simpson said.<\/p>\n<p>BDP\u2019s recent large-scale office projects include AstraZeneca\u2019s The Disc in Cambridge and its ongoing work at Google King\u2019s Cross, on which it is collaborating with Heatherwick Studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BDP has appointed one of the architects behind Eric Parry\u2019s original designs for 1 Undershaft to strengthen its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-139379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}