1. ROB HEARNE - RIBA, LEED AP
Email: rob.hearne@talk21.com
British
Qualified and experienced - all-round architect
Core skills : • Management support
• Client and consultant liaison / stakeholder engagement
• Design development / detailing / fabrication monitoring
• Technical management / review - QA / QM procedures
• Planning and Building Regulations / Project accreditation
• Specification management / Site attendance & checking
• Staff management and mentoring
Employment :
2010 Robin Partington Architects. London
Newly completed Park House, Oxford Street. 45,000m2
retail/residential/commercial development. 0.42Ha. £140m - Client
monitoring Team role for Development Managers Land Securities as
well as other strategic management responsibilities within RPA.
2009 Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands. London
Chelsea Barracks competition team - Project coordinator.
2007 – 2009 SOM - London. Senior Technical Coordinator role for Leamouth North
project. 4.7Ha peninsular site 180,000 sq m mixed-use development for
Ballymore Property Ltd. Including new bridges, parking/servicing levels,
a school, a design centre, a gym, work units and 2000 residential units.
Infrastructure support to planning team on 9 million sq m area / 22million
sq m BUA - Masterplanning project for new CBD in Dubai – including
massing / servicing / parking, traffic and wider transportation strategy.
2002 – 2007 Rafael Viñoly Architects. New York & London. Senior architect
in both technical management / project management for all
European jobs, including Mahler4, 24-storey landmark 32,000 sq m,
Amsterdam £27m, management of façade design, fabrication and
detail packages, liaising with Dutch co-architects. Curve performing arts
centre £61.5m 13,000 sq m, design development/detailing of
all external packages and site architect role through construction.
Project Manager for Masterplan of 4.3Ha, Oxford University Radcliffe
Observatory Quarter 100,000 sq m new campus Masterplan and
Infrastructure projects.
Bids/competitions: European Central Bank, 12Ha site Frankfurt.
Glasgow Broomielaw 1.3Ha riverside Masterplan 2006, and £16.5m,
4,000 sq m, Colchester Visual Arts Facility – winning entry.
2000 - 2002 Assael Architecture. London. Senior architect responsibility for
construction and detail packages on Vincent St. London SW1 - New
London Ambulance Service station and 9 residential buildings,
comprising 220 flats 17322 sq m, £33m.
1998 - 2000 Imagination Ltd. London. Event & Design Consultancy.
Senior architect - ‘Creative’ Journey Zone Millennium Dome pavilion.
£20m, 2300 sq m pavilion for Ford Europe. Technical management -
Icon tower structure, bridges, lifts, glazing/enclosure, staircases, glass
guarding and balustrades. Exhibit, design detailing, materials research,
content acquisition.
Managing specialist fabricators and suppliers. Resident site architect -
‘Production’ dept during final 6 months construction – in hands-on role.
1991- 1998* *Self employed architect working for practices on a project basis,
including – design for Jigsaw, Kookai and Blazer and high-end
Residential apartments / houses and interiors.
1989 - 1990 Akitek Tenggara – Singapore. Architects & Urban Planners. Core team
member with architect Tay Kheng Soon. 76Ha Kampong Bugis Design
Guide Plan/Masterplan for Singapore Ministry of National Development.

2. Education / Awards / Scholarship
Education :
1980 - 81 Cardiff School of Art - Foundation in Art and Design
1981 - 88 University of Kingston
1981 - 84 BA (Hons) Architecture: BA (Hons) Architecture
1985 - 87 Diploma in Architecture: Dip Arch (Kingston)
1989 RIBA Part III ARB Reg. No: 055235F
1991 RIBA membership RIBA Reg. No. 05922141
2009 LEED AP USGBC – (accredited professional)
2010 CSCS - Managerial and Professional (PQP) card
Awards :
Dec 03 First prize entry – Colchester Visual Arts Facility. Limited (100 entries)
competition winning scheme £16.5m with Rafael Viñoly London.
Jul 03 First stage (limited entry) – European Central Bank competition,
Frankfurt working with Rafael Viñoly in New York.
June 02 Fourth place - Honourable Mention - Graphisoft Conference Centre
Competition, Budapest, with Assael Architecture.
Dec 97 Shortlisted entry - Hadrian's Bridge competition, final - 9 teams
With Dewhurst MacFarlane & Partners & Davis Langdon.
Dec 94 Exhibited entry - Cardiff Opera House. Exhibition of entries in Cardiff
Civic Centre and at the ITN Gallery, London.
May 92 First prize entry - The National Glass Competition. Judge: Brian
Clarke. Exhibited at Norman Foster’s offices gallery - London.
May 90 Churchill Trust - Silver Medal - presented by HM The Queen.
Guildhall, London - following a travelling scholarship to Japan.
Scholarship :
1989 Churchill Fellow - Travelling Scholarship: Japan to study the ‘Use of
Glass in Architecture’, with special interest in Japanese technology.
Computer Experience : Literate in various packages including; Autocad, Vectorworks, InDesign,
Microsoft Office, BIW & Dome (on-line collaboration tools).
Teaching Experience : Chelsea School of Art, part-time. Interior/Environ - 1 year 1997.
Invited tutor/critic - Singapore University School of Architecture 1999.
Interests : Architect in the House , RIBA Junior Openhouse and 2009 and 2012
Civic Trust Awards – Architectural Assessor 2009 (Sussex) and 2011
(Westminster).
Art and design in general, visual arts and new technology in particular.
Alternating interest / participation: cycling, swimming, karate and scuba.
Churchill Fellow, Urban Design Group member, and enthusiastic parent.
References: Available on request - also SOM internal evaluation record 2009.
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3. PROJECT LIST:
Commercial / Mahler4 32,000 sq m office development tower in Amsterdam £27m (RVA)
Corporate
Smithfield Meat Market refurbishment - project team member (HLM)
New offices & warehouse for Jigsaw headquarters, Kew. London
European Central Bank, competition Frankfurt (100,000 sq m) (RVA)
Park House, £140m – Client Monitoring Team - Land Securities (RPA)
Leisure/Cultural/ Leicester Performing Arts Centre (Curve), £61.5m (RVA)
Exhibition
Colchester Visual Arts Facility, winning competition entry £16.5m (RVA)
Graphisoft Conference Centre, Budapest. Competition - 4th place (Assael)
Journey Zone pavilion. £20m Millennium Dome. Greenwich (Imagination)
Cardiff Bay Opera House, exhibited, stage 1 competition entry.
Residential Vincent Street, SW1 £30m 9 buildings to provide 200+ residential units (Assael)
Leamouth project 180,000 sq m mixed use accommodation on 4.7 Ha Peninsular.
Health Successful £40 million tender package for GTD Partnership, Richmond
Refurbishment / new build Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich, Greenwich
Healthcare, a NHS Trust PFI. With Trafalgar House & Llewelyn (GTD Pns)
School conversion, Harrow Weald - to 100-bed Residential Nursing Home. (HLM)
Retail Flagship shop for Kookai, Brompton Road SW3. Shops for Blazer in Manchester
and Jigsaw in London & Dubai.
Interior Design Up to £1m – Private residential, extensions, refurbishment and conversions.
Reception, waiting area, demonstration suite and furniture system for Compaq.
Restaurants Japanese restaurant in New Oxford Street and work to the City Yacht for Shi-
Tennoji International Ltd.
Masterplanning Design Guide Plan, 76Ha waterfront site – Singapore: Incorporating - Media Park
Urban Design / offices, shops, housing for 30,000 people, recreational, cultural, and commercial
Transportation & content and transportation management (Akitek Tenggara)
Infrastructure
Glasgow Broomielaw, Masterplan for 1.2Ha riverside, mixed-use site (RVA)
Oxford University Radclife Observatory Quarter 100,000 sq m BUA new campus
Masterplan on 4.3Ha £40m site. (RVA)
Oxford University Radclife Observatory Quarter Infrastructure project to
accompany Masterplan (RVA)
Jumeira Gardens 22,000,000 sq m Masterplan Dubai - including infrastructure
development, massing, servicing, parking and transportation strategy.
Pedestrians, cars, service vehicles, trams, buses, underground rail routes and
stations (SOM)
Chelsea Barracks 5Ha Masterplan stage 1 competition for Qatari Diar (LDS)
Structures Hadrian's Bridge, Carlisle: Limited competition. 270m – pedestrian/cyclist bridge
with engineers Dewhurst Macfarlane & Davis Langdon Quantity Surveyors. (Team
short-listed to final 9) value £2.1m.
Leamouth Peninsular, cross river and rail track bridges (SOM)
Sculpture on Greenwich Peninsular roundabout for Journey Zone pavilion 2000.
*Self employment projects in italics
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