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Alex Paul

Position: Director

Management Team

Alex joined Associated Architects in 2011 as an Architect, becoming an Associate in 2016 and being promoted to Associate Director in 2021 and Director in 2024.

In 2024 he became the practice’s Building Regulations Principal Designer Designated Individual, having undertaken the RIBA training and achieving a place on the BR PD Register.

As a key member of Director Richard Perry’s team, he successfully led a variety of residential, mixed-use, commercial and education projects, including the award-winning Newhall Square scheme, In the education sector he has led projects including the UK’s first University Training School at the University of Birmingham and the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Wolverhampton, which was shortlisted for the Architect’s Journal Building of the Year.

His expertise in BIM made an instrumental impact on the George Davis Centre for Medicine at the University of Leicester (currently the largest non-domestic Passivhaus building in the UK) and he has had a huge impact on the practice’s development of BIM implementation, usage, and staff training.
Alex has responsibility for QA and leads the practice in this area, ensuring systems and protcols meet current standards and ingrate seamlessly with those of our clients and collaborators.

Current and Recent Projects

School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Wolverhampton: Shortlisted for the Architects’ Journal Project of the Year, £26m

George Davies Centre for Medicine, University of Leicester: New medical teaching building, currently the largest non-domestic Passivhaus building in the UK, £42m

Heath Primary, Chesterfield: Project to extend the primary school’s facilities to provide an additional 500sq.m of space, carefully designed to complement the existing 1904 character building

Parklands Educate Together Primary School, Weston-Super-Mare: New build, two-form entry school, £8m

Rockwood Academy, Birmingham: New facilities, £8m

School of Architecture, University of Wolverhampton

University of Birmingham School, Birmingham: A first of its kind 10,000sq.m new build school incorporating teacher education facilities, £23m

Newhall Square, Birmingham: Winner of Insider Residential Awards Apartment Development of the Year, Newhall Square created 200 apartments across three residential buildings with a new public square and retail, incorporating Grade II listed buildings, £30m

Tyndall Street, Cardiff: 24-storey tower consisting of 307 studio, one and two-bedroomed apartments with ground floor retail and a residents’ skylounge clubhouse-style space with views across Cardiff Bay, £57m

2 Park Square, Longbridge: 5,574sq.m office block in Longbridge town centre over four storeys, creating office space for 450 people, £12m

University of Birmingham School UTC Birmingham

Library and Business Centre, Nuneaton: A major new facility within Nuneaton Town Centre’s Vicarage Street regeneration area incorporating a new library, business centre and café, £20m

Vicarage Street Masterplan, Nuneaton: Development of a masterplan for the Vicarage Street regeneration area of Nuneaton in Warwickshire

Rounds Gardens, Rugby: Development of design code for residential scheme to include mix of homes of various housing typologies

Curzon Wharf, Birmingham: Four-block complex in Birmingham’s Learning Quarter featuring apartments, student accommodation, roof gardens, an integrated public square and office/leisure/retail units

Curzon Wharf