Alan Davies

Architect director, Head of Heritage Manchester

T: +44 [0]161 828 2200
E: alan.davies@bdp.com

Alan is an architect director and leads the heritage sector team across the practice.

He specialises in the conservation and adaptive reuse of historic buildings and the regeneration of historic environments.

He is passionate about bringing underutilised sites and buildings back into use, making them economically viable and creating high quality environments. He applies ‘constructive conservation’ principles, a combination of best practice building conservation and contemporary design, to provide high quality and truly sustainable historic buildings and places.

Alan was the project architect on the award winning conservation of an Elizabethan house, now open to the public, and other work includes the restoration of early industrial mills and workshops into vibrant mixed-use developments. These projects have received prestigious national awards for conservation and regeneration. He has worked on a number of international projects including the conversion of a scheduled historic site in Sichuan Province, China and a strategic development plan for Yangon, Myanmar.

He led the teams for the award winning restoration and conversion of the derelict Oldham Town Hall into cinemas and restaurants as well as the repair of Lancaster Castle and its conversion to new uses. Alan is Heritage Lead for our work at the Palace of Westminster and the Parliamentary Estate.

Where do you see life in 2050?

Life in 2050 will be lived in a post-industrial environment, in sustainable settlements linked by integrated transport systems. Information technology and telecommunications will change working patterns and continue to improve the quality of life. (I’m an optimist!)

Projects

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Oldham Town Hall

BDP was appointed by Oldham Council to regenerate its Grade II listed Old Town Hall and bring the building back into use as a cinema.

The Round Foundry

New life for a major heritage site. The aesthetic of the area was preserved while boosting floor space with carefully balanced new infill buildings that varied between two and six storeys.