Alex Wraight

Alex has wide experience as an architect, from leading some of our key workplace and commercial projects to our largest cultural and educational project to date. He is a champion for technical excellence in the practice, across the range of our work, and is responsible for Principal Designer services when we are appointed to that role. In addition, he plays an important role in the day-to-day running of the studio, sitting on our Management and Resources Teams.

As the partner at the helm of the Stratford Waterfront project, part of East Bank, London's new cultural quarter, Alex leads a multi-disciplinary team on a complex project in the public eye. It has involved several workstreams – the design of individual buildings for some of the world’s leading cultural and educational institutions and a shared public realm as well as an extensive programme of stakeholder engagement. A new home for the London College of Fashion opened in 2023 to industry acclaim and continues to pick up awards. Alex is also leading on the restoration of the fire-damaged Grade I listed Clandon Park for the National Trust, and major renewal works at the Barbican Centre for the City of London.

For Imperial College London, he led the design and delivery of the Sir Michael Uren Hub, an innovative new biomedical facility on Imperial’s White City Campus. And he has been responsible for our projects at Paddington Central for British Land, delivering Four Kingdom Street while now designing its neighbour, Five Kingdom Street. Alex was also a pivotal member of the team that delivered Bankside 123, the award-winning mixed-use development adjacent to Tate Modern and our studios.

In 2025, Alex was appointed an Honorary Professor of Architecture at the University of Nottingham, his alma mater, where he now contributes as a visiting design tutor. He is Chair of St Albans Design Review Panel, a Member of the Watford Place Shaping Panel and a Board Member of Better Bankside, our local business improvement district. Before joining us in 2000, he worked in Dublin and Malaysia.