Adrian Boot, Design Director & Principal (Europe), RMJM, UK

Adrian Boot (RIBA, ARIAS, ARB) is a design director at international architecture practice RMJM. Based at the firm’s Edinburgh headquarters he is a member of the board and leader of the design studio with significant experience directing large, complex projects around the world. Adrian, who won the Royal Scottish Academy Gold Medal for Architecture in 1993, has worked on several major education projects in the UK as well as on commercial, residential and civic design projects across Europe. Since joining RMJM in 2001, Adrian has delivered a number of key projects for the firm. In addition to his four flagship projects for Newcastle College in England (which include the multi-award-winning Lifestyle and Performance Academies) he has lead the designs for a new Faculty of Engineering for the National University of Ireland as well as heading the team of architects responsible for the new £50 million campus for Jewel and Esk College in Scotland.

Adrian Boot has designed offices for local authorities in Scotland and England. He worked on the New Scottish Parliament, a building which defines a new era in Scottish politics and has won several architectural accolades including the Stirling Prize 2005, the Royal Fine Art Commission ‘Urban & Landscape Specialist Award’, the Manuel de la Dehesa Award 2005, the Scottish Design Awards 2005 ‘Best Publicly Funded Building’ and ‘Architecture Grand Prix’. Adrian has also worked extensively on designs for commercial buildings across Europe. The recently completed headquarters for the Alliance Trust (a FTSE 100 investment company) in Dundee, Scotland, helps to assert the firm as a forward-looking organisation in the city beyond. It is a prime example of Adrian’s architecture: visually defining how an organisation communicates its values to its employees and clients."