Steve Buckman is a conservation architect with extensive experience across a wide range of conservation, refurbishment and creative renewal projects.
Steve’s first work after qualifying was with Hampshire County Architect’s Department, where his projects included the extension and refurbishment of an art gallery.
Leaving Hampshire for private practice in London, he acted as job architect with Casson Conder Partnership, for the £10.5 million Ismaili Cultural Centre in South Kensington, followed by a year’s intensive work on his own behalf, repairing a Grade II listed stone barn in Northamptonshire and converting it into housing.
Building on his enthusiasm and experience in working with existing and historic fabric, Steve then undertook a two-year post graduate diploma course in architectural conservation at De Montfort University, while working with a private practice in Leicestershire.
He joined Lathams’ design and conservation team in 1990. His early work included his appointment as project architect for the £4.6m refurbishment for British Rail of an imposing Victorian office building within a Derby conservation area, and his work on the new headquarters for the Grade 1 listed King’s Fund in Cavendish Square, London – a £7.5m project, at the heart of which is the King’s Fund Library, the nation’s best information resource for health management.
More recently he has worked on the Picture Conservation Studios and the Farm Shop at Windsor for the Royal Household; on a large private residence in Derbyshire; and on the Conservation Plan supporting the PFI funded project for the Grade I listed Magistrates’ Courts in Derby.
Steve is currently project architect for Bailbrook House in Bath, a £25 million development involving the extension of a Grade II Georgian mansion within a World Heritage Site, to form a 140 bed luxury hotel with conference and leisure facilities.
