Ns Architect

Nick serridge has worked for 15 years in the arena of both public and private buildings. He had the privilege of reading architecture at both his native schools of architecture. Firstly, he went to liverpool john moores university and was later accepted into the stirling school at the university of liverpool. Here nick was mentored by richard lavington of maccreanor lavington and hans van der heijden of biq architecten, both highly acclaimed architects of modernist communal living in the uk and abroad. Nick eventually moved to rotterdam in the netherlands to further his passion for dutch modernism and urban renewal, working for dkv architectetn. Here he initially worked on social and private housing in utrecht, delft, langerach and westerdock. He later went on to write his thesis on the eastern docklands of amsterdam at borneo sporenburg, an area that inspires him to this day. He later went on to be a senior architect at the internationally acclaimed nightingale associates where he gained his charted in december 2005. In 2009 nick went onto join the _space group in manchester. Nick was the most senior architect within the office which was ran remotely from newcastle. Here he was responsible for some major education project on the governments building schools for the future ( bsf) running 100million worth of academy, sen and high schools across the north of england. He also work with the national trust developing the estate at dunham massey around the grade 1* listed building. In 2012 nick established n s architects ltd. He initially started working in collaboration with cube surveyors starting with small residential project and retail / commercial work. This work later lead to delivering the redevelopment of hartlepool retail park. Maintaining nicks experience with listed buildings and the residential sector, nick quickly merged the two areas to create a series of high quality student and apartment living spaces in two of liverpool’s most impressive grade 2 listed buildings. Additional work has involved complex industrial, education, retail, and restaurant work which has been rolled across the uk under a turnkey solution. Nick has a reputation of working and delivering on the most demanding and complex existing listed buildings and government newbuilds from start to finish priding himself of traditional procurement. Nick is also an external examiner at the university of denmark via where he mentors architectural technology students as part of their international training programme assisting via with end of year examinations. Ns architects ltd is an arb registered practice. We are actively working in the regeneration of many of the north of england’s cities and towns.