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Pradumn Pamidighantam
Redefining Green Spaces: The Story Behind Holbein Gardens, ft. Pradumn Pamidighantam at Barr Gazetas
Pradumn Pamidighantam, Senior Architect at Barr Gazetas, on Holbein Gardens, sustainable retrofit and net zero workplaces.
- Current role
- Senior Architect
- Practice
- Barr Gazetas
- Location
- London, UK
Conversation
The thinking behind the work.
Episode 0188 · Architecture Social
Redefining Green Spaces: The Story Behind Holbein Gardens, ft. Pradumn Pamidighantam at Barr Gazetas
Today we will be speaking to Pradumn Pamidighantam from Barr Gazetas to navigate the sustainable journey of an award-winning architectural practice.
Explore episode moments
Use the timestamps below to find each moment in the full episode.
- 05:00 · Barr Gazetas, retrofit and upgrading existing buildings · Audio only
- 10:00 · Carbon measurement, LETI and emerging sustainability standards · Audio only
- 15:00 · Circular economy, materials and cradle-to-cradle thinking · Audio only
- 20:00 · Building technology, sensors and smarter workplace performance · Audio only
- 25:00 · Portfolios, project engagement and what candidates should show · Audio only
- 30:00 · Current projects and working across London · Audio only
Selected work
Selected work.
Belgravia, London, United Kingdom · 2023
Holbein Gardens
A completed all-electric retrofit and extension that retains a 1980s structure while creating 25,000 sq ft of workplace in Belgravia.
Explore the project ↗Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom · 2023
Grainhouse
A completed heritage-led workplace and mixed-use redevelopment unifying five historic Covent Garden buildings.
Explore the project ↗Marylebone, London, United Kingdom · 2025
42 Wigmore Street
A completed Marylebone workplace retrofit combining a renewed Georgian-language façade with improved circulation, amenities and outdoor space.
Explore the project ↗Other public work
6 More London ↗
A completed refurbishment repositioning a 2000s office building as a more visible and welcoming gateway to the More London Estate.
Fivefields ↗
A completed inclusive workplace for charities and social-value organisations within a listed building in Victoria.
About
The story so far.
The person behind the work.
Pradumn Pamidighantam is a Senior Architect at Barr Gazetas, the London practice he joined in 2014. He studied at Liverpool and Nottingham Trent and completed his professional qualification in architecture. At Barr Gazetas he leads project teams and has spent around three years guiding the practice's work on Holbein Gardens, an award-winning sustainable retrofit of a 1980s office building off Sloane Square.
His interests span retrofit and reuse, net zero and operational carbon, circular economy materials, and smart, people-centred workplaces. He is a clear advocate for cutting through jargon, designing for the people who use buildings, and treating sustainability awareness as a core skill for the next generation of architects.
Watch or listen to the full conversation in the Architecture Social CPD: Holbein Gardens: Retrofit, Reuse and Net Zero Workplaces.
The practice
Barr Gazetas
At Barr Gazetas, our philosophy is simple. We create intelligent design that delights, elevates spaces and places with purpose, and puts people at heart. Transformative design underpins every aspect of our process. Our desire to improve, augment and originate feeds our aspiration to challenge convention and redefine…
Architecture practice · Greater London
Expertise
What I bring.
- Current role
- Senior Architect
- Practice
- Barr Gazetas
- Location
- London, UK
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2023
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