Krystin Schwendel Smith

Krystin is an Architect and Associate Director at Buckley Gray Yeoman and has nearly 20 years of practice experience in a wide variety of industry sectors that include: Hospitality, Workplace, Residential, Student Accommodation, Retail and Mixed-Use Masterplanning, from the sensitive re-working, de-carbonising and value-add of distressed assets to the new build re-imagining of new city quarters, with projects in London and across the UK.

She is currently leading the team for the Shepherd Hotel in London’s Mayfair, the extension and retrofit of the existing block that includes a Grade II listed Georgian terrace to deliver a new 85-key boutique hotel and several private residential apartments. She has also overseen other large retrofit developments, including 65 Fleet Street in the City of London – the total remodelling of an inner-city block with completely new facades to deliver 850 units of purpose-built student accommodation.

With experience leading large mixed-use schemes, Krystin is and has been responsible for a range of significant projects in London’s Hackney Wick in and around the Fish Island Creative Arts Quarter, totalling over 300 Build To Rent and affordable residential units plus another 300,000sqft of affordable commercial workspace in carefully curated clusters. Her experience is based on several substantial schemes of similar scale in Brighton and Cambridge.

Buckley Gray Yeoman has got an extensive and growing portfolio in Europe and is in the Top 25 of UK architectural practices.