A former director of architect Hamiltons has taken the design job for Land Securities £120m Park House scheme from the firm

Robin Partington, who was part of the design team for Park House while at Hamiltons, left last year. His new firm, Robin Partington Architects, has been given the executive architect role on the London scheme, on which Mace is due to start work this year.

The news follows Hamiltons’ announcement last week that it had re-named itself BFLS, following the departure of Partington, founder Tim Hamilton and housing architect Craig Casci in the past year.

John Silver, a director of BFLS, said: “We will get a joint credit on the building, but Robin is the architect from here. It is completely amicable.

The practice, which designed Brookfield’s Strata Tower in south London, has kept 120 architects and the bulk of its work.

We will get a joint credit on the building, but Robin is the architect from here

John Silver, director, BFLS

The news comes amid a week of upheaval in the UK architectural industry, with Bill Taylor, the managing director of Hopkins Architects, standing down to concentrate on a site he owns personally. Taylor has been with Hopkins, the architect of Westminster station and the Olympic velodrome, for 30 years. David Selby takes over as the acting managing director.

Elsewhere, public sector consultant Tribal Group is looking to sell its architecture arm, primarily made up of Nightingale Associates, to refocus around its core business.

Meanwhile, the four founders of award-winning practice Flacq are to become directors of Arup Associates and their five-year-old firm will be wound up. The four designers, who are all former Richard Rogers Partnership architects, will be joined by the firm’s five other employees.

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