User:Anthony S Charnley

Anthony Charnley is a London based architect. His father was John Wrathall Charnley (1914-2008), a civil engineer who became Head of Overseas Development at Laing Construction. He spent his early years in Harare, Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) and was educated at Rugby School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Early in his career he was involved with the following projects:

(Whilst at BDP): Coronation Street TV set, Grape St, Manchester (demolished in 2017); Grape St Warehouse Studios for Granada TV, Manchester; ICI Research Labs, Alderley Edge; DEC Corporation European HQ, Reading.

(Whilst at John Outram Associates): Harp Heating Headquarters, Swanley; Light Industrial units for ESN, 1200 Aztec West, Bristol.

In 1988 he joined Brown Ibbotson, becoming a partner in Brown Ibbotson Charnley in 1989. Whilst there he led the following projects:

Little London for Jacobs Island Company, Mill Street, Bermondsey; Van Hages Garden Centre, Ware; Finish Embassy restoration, Chesham Place. The practice won the competition (on behalf of Jacobs Island Company / Olympia & York) for the Surrey Quays 20 Acre site in Docklands.

In 1991 he rejoined John Outram Associates and had a major role in the Judge Institute of Management Studies for Cambridge University; Duncan Hall for Rice University, Houston; the redevelopment of the Oude Stadhuis (Town Hall), Den Haag; Craft Workshops, Welbeck and several other projects.

In 2006 he joined Dixon Jones to work on 55-91 Knightsbridge mixed use redevelopment (Cheval). He was project architect for Quadrant 3 - the mixed use redevelopment of the Edwardian Regents Palace Hotel, off Piccadilly Circus for The Crown Estate ( completed 2011). He is currently Project Architect for the transformation of Olympic Way, Wembley for Quintain.

He is divorced, with three sons from his marriage to Mary An Van Hage. He lives in Stoke Newington and Litchborough, Northants.