The unifying theme of our work is that it doesn’t deal only with broad concepts as specialist urban designers do. We design realisable central area schemes as part of a larger whole.
Hugh Dennis studied architecture at South Bank University after a Masters specialising in ecological building design at Leicester Polytechnic Dept of Design and Manufacture. Before moving into architecture and design, Hugh gained a first class Building Surveying degree and won an RICS student of the year award.
Urban View was founded in 1999, specialising in small and medium-sized residential, commercial and mixed use schemes. Between 2013 and 2018, Urban View traded as "Add Architects" in collaboration with Jim Duffy specialising in large urban regeneration projects.
Hugh has an intimate knowledge of the commercial drivers to create viable retail and mixed use schemes, using his experience as a property developer to inform how Urban View can help a client maximise an opportunity without cramming or over-developing. His multi-disciplinary background enables him to identify solutions that are not immediately apparent to more traditionally educated property professionals.
A focus on delivering viable schemes for developer clients is balanced by Hugh's concern to ensure the highest possible architectural quality is maintained throughout a project. This is achieved by the use of simple and elegant design concepts that can withstand the rigours of modern day building procurement.
Hugh is also a director of Little Ships which is a not-for-profit social enterprise that will help solve the housing crisis by building homes on underused publicly owned land.
Bayo began his career with Schneider Designers in 1994 working on interior refurbishment projects. He later joined Quad Architects, during which time he gained experience working on domestic residential projects and residential care homes.
The high level of proficiency in detailing & design coordination gained early on in his career has allowed him to develop the core skills needed to excel in production information, implementation and all technical design aspects.
As a senior architect with HKR from 2005, Bayo led the construction of many mixed-use projects at different RIBA Work Stages, liaising directly with clients & consultant team to good effect. After this, he worked with Jim Duffy Architects on proposals for a large shopping mall in Carrickmines, Dublin in January 2012.
Bayo later provided tender documentation for the Travelodge Hotel in Telford Town Centre on behalf of Urban View Limited before joining G1 Architecture in January 2013 where he worked on proposals for 3 Marriott hotel projects in Cotonou, Republic of Benin and Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria and Libreville in Gabon. He has also worked with ADD Architects on redevelopment proposals for Bray Town Centre. He continues to work in collaboration with Design Command Interior Architects on a range of restaurant fit-out projects across the UK.
With 15 years of experience, Bayo has developed a good aptitude for design and representation and has acrued a vast amount of experience across the Residential, Retail, Office, Mixed-use, Masterplanning, Health, Education, Hotel & Leisure sectors.
Mohsen started his Architectural journey in 2010 in Iran and graduated in BA qualification with A honours. During his studies, he worked with Architectural Practices on residential projects. Gaining experience in the field, Mohsen then pursued his education by studying his Masters and graduating with A honours, investigting the social, ecological and economic aspects of architecture. His scope of research and studies looked at Infill Development Strategies, Technical Urbanism and Catalyst projects in the eroded and historic parts of a city, his thesis achieved the approval from the City Council and the City Regeneration organisation of Shahre-Kord as a practical project.
During and after his MA studies in Iran, he worked as a project architect for private clients mostly on residential and housing projects and also liaised with the City Council on urban scale regeneration schemes and public space planning gaining more experience.
In 2018, Mohsen then came to England to further his studies and currently is in the final year of his Masters in Landscape and Urbanism in Kingston University. To exceed more experience during his studies, he joined the Little Ships non-profit company as a project architect, working on housing projects to tackle the housing crisis as a significant problem in today's cities and now has joined the Urban View Practice towards progression in his work.
Yunus completed his architectural education in Turkey in 2019 and embarked on his career in the field. He held roles in both the restoration site of some of the historical monuments in Istanbul and the design and modelling of architectural projects. He has worked in the Netherlands and the USA, creating digital twins for the transition of 2D construction documents into BIM models, and working as a landscape designer.
He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Portsmouth, focusing on post-disaster housing and urban design processes. He teaches BIM and CAD at the university, developing his expertise and knowledge in parallel commercial and academic careers.
In addition to his academic pursuits, he is actively involved in addressing the housing crisis, focusing on practical design solutions. At Urban View, Yunus provides support in project production and documentation, contributing to the resolution of the crucial societal problem of housing.
Pawel uses his over a decade of experience as an architect to create illustrations for projects at every stage. He studied architecture at the Wroclaw University of Technology and graduated in 2017. Since then he has worked at P2PA, Major Architekci, Arch_it and EPR Architects, among others. He specializes in concepts and competition design.
He co-authored the winning competition designs for the extension of the National Museum in Warsaw (2022, with P2PA) and the Museum of the Deed of Insurrection (2022, with P2PA). His career took a turn towards architectural illustration with the establishment of a permanent cooperation with the Danish studio Henning Larsen Architects. Pawel is a member of the British Society of Architectural Illustrators (SAI).
address: Studio 1, 48 Osmond Road, Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1TD
email: info@urbanview.co.uk
phone: 01273 978 928
