Antje Saunders

A key contributor to the practice’s work in urbanism, Antje has played an important role in large mixed-use and housing-led masterplans including the Olympic Legacy. She co-leads the Masterplanning Group and provides ongoing client support for the King’s Cross Masterplan.

Antje worked on the regeneration of Fosters Estate in Hendon, a co-design masterplan that explores ways of providing much-needed additional affordable homes within an existing estate, creating design proposals in close collaboration with, rather than for, the local community. Her estate regeneration experience ranges in scale, from the 16.5-hectare Gascoigne Estate in Barking to small-scale infill projects such as Fairbanks Road in Tottenham Hale. More recently, Antje led the regeneration of Uplands Business Park in Waltham Forest, a masterplan co-locating innovative industrial typologies with up to 1,800 homes. Building on this experience designing along Agent of Change principles, she also led the masterplan for Knights Road in West Silvertown which provides 1,400 new homes as well as workspaces and a stacked industrial building.

From Germany, Antje studied at the University of Stuttgart, and Berlin University of the Arts, before completing a Masters in Housing and Urbanism at the Architectural Association. She has been an external critic at the University of Westminster, the Architectural Association and Loughborough University and she is a member of the Kensington and Chelsea Quality Review Panel, and the Waltham Forest Design Review Panel.

Away from the studio, Antje chairs the Camden Broadway Conservation Area Advisory Committee and is a trustee and cellist for the Camden Symphony Orchestra.