Vicky Thornton

A versatile architect who has worked on a wide range of projects, Vicky has a particular focus on leading teams in gaining planning consent for projects on challenging and complex sites. Her work encompasses residential developments, hotels, university masterplans and multiple specialist projects.

Vicky led the design team for the Chelsea College of Art , creating a new campus for the university within the Grade II listed buildings of the former Royal Army Medical College on London’s Millbank. In Preston she developed a masterplan for the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN), significantly improving the quality of the public realm and which has since progressed through the construction of four of its initial new buildings.

In Cambridge, her direction on the striking multi-storey car park for Addenbrooke’s hospital won an RIBA Award in 2015, one of the first buildings within an overall masterplan for the Cambridge Biomedical Campus with which she continues her involvement. She has also been a key member of the team leading proposals for Cambridge East, a major new development on the site of the city’s airport.

On a smaller scale Vicky has also directed more specialised buildings such as the South Hampstead Synagogue in north London, and the extension of a railway warehouse in Shoreditch to create a new hotel.

She is one of our Diversity Champions, actively contributing to the practice’s involvement in Women in Architecture. Her ceramics and creatively repurposed vintage textiles are a regular feature at practice charitable fundraising events.

Vicky trained at Manchester School of Architecture and the Bartlett. She has also lectured at the University of Kent and been a visiting tutor at London Metropolitan University.