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Justin Nicholls
Finding Your Dream Job, ft. Justin Nicholls at Fathom Architects
Justin Nicholls, founder of Fathom Architects, on how to find your dream job in architecture. Hear his Architecture Social podcast episode.
- Current role
- Director
- Practice
- Fathom Architects
- Location
- London, UK
Conversation
The thinking behind the work.
Episode 0204 · Architecture Social
Finding Your Dream Job, ft. Justin Nicholls at Fathom Architects
It's the new year and some of you may have returned to work, looked around, looked at your desk and thought "I don't want to be here anymore!" or perhaps you're beginning your job search for the first time.
Explore episode moments
Use the timestamps below to find each moment in the full episode.
- 05:00 · Inspiration, career direction and choosing the right path · Audio only
- 10:00 · Why rounded project experience matters · Audio only
- 15:00 · Design quality, delivery and what makes the work worthwhile · Audio only
- 20:00 · Standing out when many candidates are applying · Audio only
- 25:00 · Location, practice focus and matching your search · Audio only
- 30:00 · Interviews, honesty and learning how to present yourself · Audio only
Selected work
Selected work.
Blackfriars, London, United Kingdom
Blackfriars Almshouses
A fully affordable mixed-use scheme centred on 62 almshouses for older Southwark residents facing hardship.
Explore the project ↗St James's, London, United Kingdom · 2021
6 Babmaes Street
A disused 1970s St James's building converted into social, wellbeing and collaborative space for a workplace community.
Explore the project ↗Clerkenwell, London, United Kingdom · 2024
The Waterman
Four Victorian Clerkenwell warehouses combined into a 6,500 sq m low-carbon workplace and heritage retrofit.
Explore the project ↗Other public work
Berkeley Square, Mayfair ↗
Three Grade II-listed Mayfair townhouses being restored as distinct low-carbon workspaces with new shared amenities.
Hauxton Mill SciTech Park ↗
A science and technology campus masterplan that reuses a Grade II-listed water mill and creates laboratories and shared workspace.
About
The story so far.
The person behind the work.
Justin Nicholls is an architect and the founder of Fathom Architects, the London studio he set up in 2016 to solve complex briefs on sensitive sites.
He grew up around building sites in Cornwall, watching the craft of his carpenter father, and went on to study at the University of Bath and the Royal College of Art. Before founding Fathom he spent 11 years at Foster + Partners and more than a decade at Make Architects, which he helped establish.
Justin's approach is built around depth: depth of thinking, complexity, care and collaboration. His work runs from big-picture visioning through to the finest construction detail, drawing on a network of specialists across interior design, laboratory planning, heritage and digital environments. Beyond the studio he is active in architectural education and mentoring, examining at Part 3 and sitting on design review panels in Westminster and Oxford.
He holds a BSc (Hons) and an MA from the Royal College of Art, and is ARB registered, RIBA chartered and a Fellow of the RSA.
Watch or listen to the full conversation in the Architecture Social CPD: Finding Your Dream Job, ft. Justin Nicholls at Fathom Architects.
The practice
Fathom Architects
Depth is what we do at Fathom — depth of complexity, depth of collaboration, depth of care
Architecture practice · City of London
Expertise
What I bring.
- Current role
- Director
- Practice
- Fathom Architects
- Location
- London, UK
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2024
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