Urban Designer

Foster + Partners


Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Battersea
Contract type: Full time

Urban Designer


The Urban Design Group is an interdisciplinary team, covering a wide range of projects from strategic planning to urban design and landscape architecture. In the pursuit of design excellence, we encourage an active dialogue between different disciplines, which is why our team comprises a number of experts - from planning to landscape architecture, spatial design and social anthropology. We all come together to create unique environments and spaces with a social focus, whose positive influence extends beyond the project brief.


Responsibilities:

  • To seek to understand the design/master plan project and conduct research into relevant urban design and planning issues
  • To support project teams throughout the design process from conducting brief development to performing analysis on design options and benchmarking
  • To communicate those findings to the team and help in developing diagrammatic or spatial representations where appropriate
  • Develop design concepts, working along-side other specialist in the Urban Design Group and members of the design studios
  • Communicate the work in 2D and 3D as appropriate
  • Contribute, or otherwise assist, as required
  • Equity, diversity & inclusion (EDI) is a core priority. To support and champion the embedding of this focus as a collective workforce responsibility, EDI should be integrated, where relevant, into all workstreams
  • Thorough knowledge of and compliance with F+P procedures and standards


Desirable:

  • Ability to use some of the following: GIS, PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, Internet Explorer, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint
  • Experience of working on Large scale masterplans and masterplan scales
  • Project experience based in the Middle East


Qualities and Skills required:

  • Able to demonstrate ability to undertake the above responsibilities
  • Able to use a variety of media in the development and documentation of a design project
  • Legally able to work in the country in which the position is based
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Able to manage sensitive and sometimes confidential information
  • Able to build good relationships at all levels, internally and externally


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