Garry Wilding

Principal, Architect, Retail and Mixed Use sector lead London

T: +44 [0]20 7812 8000
E: garry.wilding@bdp.com

Garry is a Principal Architect and leads the mixed use retail group across the practice.

Garry specialises in complex masterplans, urban regeneration and mixed-use projects. He leads large teams who conceive and deliver significant and complex projects throughout the UK and internationally. His skills lay in conceiving and delivering beautifully designed spaces and places that generate an improvement to the wider areas. One of his specialities is vision strategies, to analyse a place or project along with its wider context and highlight opportunities for improvement, moments of interest and creation of value.

His most recent project sees the retail led mixed use repurposing of an iconic building located on Oxford Circus in central London, including office and F&B elements. The conversion included refurbishment of the Grade II listed façade and the incorporation of an IKEA store, new retail, 4-5 floors of high spec new office space with Cat A fit-out.

Detail your studio’s biggest achievement and why

My biggest achievement within the studio is the design and team management of a complex 300,000sqm retail scheme in Beijing for IICG. Designed and delivered in 5 years, with over 450 shops, 7,000 car parking spaces below ground, an integrated metro station and anchored by a 50,000sqm IKEA store.

Projects

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Meadowhall Refurbishment

The UK’s fourth largest shopping centre has been transformed into a contemporary destination comprising 310 shops, 50 restaurants and a multi-screen cinema.

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The Leisure Hall, Meadowhall

The new Leisure Hall is an extension to the existing Meadowhall centre that will add a range of dining and entertainment experiences including new restaurants, a state-of-the-art cinema, a new café court, gym and other leisure space

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The Lexicon, Bracknell

The Lexicon is a next generation shopping and leisure destination. A vibrant mix of brands, experiences and green lanscaped spaces provide a new social and cultural heart for Bracknell.

Beijing Ikea Shopping Mall

The concept for this store district, like the others, includes IKEA as unique anchor, hypermarket, international and domestic fashion retailers,....

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Victoria Square

Mixed-use city centre scheme sparks Belfast renaissance. Our scheme harnessed the very latest retail thinking — incorporating pedestrian-friendly open and covered streets, penthouse apartments and modern entertainment spaces.

Liverpool ONE

Retail regeneration transforms Liverpool city centre. We masterplanned a 42-acre area of Liverpool, creating a mixed-used development of new and refurbished buildings, streets and spaces.

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Reconfiguring retail

Garry Wilding assesses the seismic shift in the retail industry in recent years and how a global pandemic, technology and the economy has changed the way we shop.