Nick joined Purcell in 2023 as Associate Partner with over twenty years experience designing hospitality, retail, residential and workplace projects in the UK, the Middle East and South Africa. Before Purcell, Nick ran a small architectural studio – during which he completed two comprehensive hotel refurbishments. Prior to this, Nick led the hotel sector team at Aukett Swanke, working on numerous hotel projects in the UK, UAE and Qatar, with values ranging between £20m and £500m.

Alongside Hospitality design, Nick has a particular interest in working with existing buildings and improving their performance, efficiency and sensitively modernising them through refurbishment or adaptive reuse. He believes this is important work in the context of both conserving built heritage and addressing the climate crisis.

Away from the studio, Nick has an established reputation as a writer and critic. He has written for industry and design publications including the Architects’ Journal, Building Design, The Real Review, New London Quarterly, among others as well as writing book and exhibition reviews, and opinion pieces. His review on Isaac Julien’s retrospective at Tate Britain can be read here.

Nick regularly contributes to industry events as a public speaker and panellist in the hotel sector and has led discussions and debate at The NLA, Vision London, The Sleep Event, and The Festival of Hospitality, among others.

Nick uses his years of experience to tutor with the London School of Architecture and Loughborough University, where he has also been invited to crits and reviews. He has also mentored with the Stephen Lawrence Foundation and Transitions London, which helps qualified refugee professionals to settle and integrate into local professional communities.