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Justin Parsons
Design Director · BDP
Design Director at BDP, leading retail and residential interior design in London and internationally.
- Current role
- Design Director
- Practice
- BDP
- Location
- London, UK
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2024
The story so far
The path behind Justin's work.
Justin Parsons is a Design Director at BDP (Building Design Partnership), based in the practice's London studio. He leads a team of retail and residential designers working on shopping centre refurbishments and extensions and on residential developments in the UK and internationally.
He came to interior design through art, completing an art foundation before a degree in interior design at Middlesex. Through the 1990s he worked in Japan and across Asia, including Osaka and Brunei, on projects ranging from hotels to golf clubs, an experience that shaped a restrained, detail-led approach to materials and the manipulation of space.
Episode 0212 · Architecture Social · 43:14
Inside Innovation: BDP's Justin Parsons Talks Transformative Design
Multidisciplinary design works best when architecture, interiors, engineering and strategy stop behaving like separate silos and start shaping one clear experience.
Inside the conversation
6 moments to start with- 01
00:00 · Introduction to multidisciplinary design
- 02
05:00 · Justin's route through art, design and architecture
- 03
10:00 · Connecting architectural concepts and interiors
- 04
15:00 · Retail, changing shopping centres and experience
- 05
20:00 · Project examples and current work at BDP
- 06
25:00 · Home, office and the overlap between work and living
Profile in brief
The work and context behind Justin's conversation.
- Current role
- Design Director
- Practice
- BDP
- Location
- London, UK
Continue exploring
Meet the practice behind the work.
Original multidisciplinary house of design since 1961
- Greater London
- Bristol
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
Podcast · moments that play
Start where the idea starts.
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Justin's route through art, design and architecture
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Connecting architectural concepts and interiors
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Retail, changing shopping centres and experience
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Project examples and current work at BDP
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Home, office and the overlap between work and living
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Advice for applicants and holistic design thinking
Selected work from BDP
Three projects, one connected practice.
A closer look at the practice’s work
Google HQ King's Cross
Google's 60,400 sq m London headquarters, with BDP leading design delivery alongside Heatherwick Studio and BIG.
View project →Alder Hey Children's Health Park
A 270-bed children's hospital integrated with a public park through architecture, landscape and interior design.
View project →Leighton House Museum
A Grade II* listed museum restoration that improves access, visitor facilities and connections to the house and garden.
View project →