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NEWS APPOINTMENTS
tp bennett appoint Polidoro and Vescovi to main board
Architects tp bennett have promoted two directors to their main board – Katia Polidoro as principal director and Valentina Vescovi as chief commercial offi cer (CCO). Katia Polidoro is an architect and urban designer with twenty-fi ve years’ experience across a wide range of award- winning projects, from architecture and interior design through to large-scale masterplanning and regeneration schemes across the UK and EMEA. Since joining tp bennett in 2013, Polidoro
has led “transformational” mixed use developments including High Street Quarter and Cavalry Barracks in Hounslow, the Rochdale Riverside mixed-use quarter near Manchester, and the redevelopment of Rackhams department store (an early tp bennett building) in Birmingham, as well as the regeneration of Luton and Camberley town centres. She regularly speaks on the benefi ts of sustainable retrofi t, town centre regeneration and the art of placemaking. Throughout her career, Polidoro has consistently championed the Equality,
BOOK
Making Architecture: The work of John McAslan + Partners – ‘a remarkable contribution to architecture’
This August, Thames & Hudson will be publishing ‘Making Architecture: The work of John McAslan + Partners.’ The book, said the publishers, “both provides an up-to-date account of the work of John McAslan + Partners – one of Britain’s most respected and dynamic architectural practices – and analyses the culture of a studio that has made a remarkable contribution to architecture, place-making and the lives of individuals for four decades.”
A series of thematic chapters includes detailed, fully illustrated descriptions of numerous recent and ongoing
international projects, from Central and Waterloo stations in Sydney to the transformation of King’s Cross station in London. Other projects include the sensitive repair and renewal of the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, the Roundhouse, London, and most recently The Burrell Collection in Glasgow, to the new Msheireb Mosque and nearby Msheireb Museums in Qatar. The book also includes the pioneering initiatives for which the McAslan studio has become renowned, and which underline the practice’s humanity and sense of social responsibility: the urgent
rebuilding of the Iron Market in Port- au-Prince, Haiti, after the devastating earthquake in 2010; the N17 project, which provided an innovative pop- up apprenticeship design studio in Tottenham, north London; and the ongoing Hidden Homeless initiative. Edited by Chris Foges, with a foreword by Kenneth Frampton, an introduction by Alan Powers and contributions from architectural specialists, this well produced monograph “offers the key to understanding the development and philosophy of one of the world’s most socially engaged architectural practices.”
Katia Polidoro
Diversity and Inclusion agenda. Herself an industry mentor, Polidoro has been responsible for establishing and mobilising tp bennett’s successful in-house mentoring programme and supports the practice’s relationships with London universities, the RIBA and organisations including Women in Property, Real Estate Balance and the Mentoring Circle.
As a member of the architectural NGOs Article 25 (Development & Disaster Relief) and Architecture Sans Frontières UK, Katia has been involved in community and
Valentina Vescovi
regeneration work overseas. Valentina Vescovi is a management professional with over 15 years’ experience in the architecture and interior design industry. Her international experience and multilingual abilities have enabled her to develop expertise in the commercial, legal and fi nancial aspects of prominent international projects.
Since joining tp bennett in 2015,
Valentina has led the commercial operations of the architectural and design practice’s interior design division.
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