Urban Designer - London, United Kingdom - Populous

Populous

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Urban Designer

Populous is an award-winning, international design practice specialising in sport and entertainment venues that draw people and communities together for unforgettable experiences.

The Urban Design studio within Populous is a cross-disciplinary team, focusing on creating experience-led urban spaces. Our design ethos is ensuring the experiences and moments are continuous, and they translate seamlessly from cities to seats.

Our work stands on three pillars:
Exceptional design, decades-long expertise and emerging integrated digital tools.

Populous' Urban Design studio reflects our decades-long expertise on sports, entertainment, and events architecture onto larger scale projects with a transformative vision for urban futures.

As a member of the Urban Design studio, you'll be working closely with the architecture, landscape, wayfinding, and events teams within Populous and enjoy a multi-disciplinary, vibrant and interactive work environment on a daily basis.

The Urban Designer that would fit seamlessly into our team has:

A strong understanding of large-scale master planning projects
The knowledge and eagerness to formulate the complexities of such multidisciplinary largescale work
Ability to develop visions and narratives to conceptualise and develop design ideas, and generate diagrams, create digital models and prepare presentation materials to clearly communicate these concepts
Excellent design, graphics and visualisation skills, with strong digital abilities
Technical ability to prepare, organise, develop and edit relevant project reports, drawings, models and visuals
Technical ability to develop design options in 3D, collaboration with the wider design teams in a multidisciplinary design environment
Strong organisational and timemanagement skills, ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines with a highquality output within a multidisciplinary environment
Previous knowledge, interest or research into future cities, crowd dynamics, mobility, sustainability, user experience or emerging digital technologies would be highly commended

Qualifications, skills and experience:

A professional degree in urban design, architecture or similar/equivalent related field
26 years of experience in a professional design practice, with at least 2 of which including masterplanning and urban design work in various design phases
Very strong computer skills including both 3D and 2D and graphic software capabilities

How to apply:

Populous is an equal opportunities employer.

A global practice like no other, Populous employees enjoy a full range of workplace benefits, as well as the opportunity to attend events at a number of Populous-designed venues.