5 minutes with… Tim Bowder-Ridger, senior partner, Conran and Partners

By Tim Bowder-Ridger 2019-06-17T05:00:00

Tim Bowder-Ridger tells Building about horses, Seiko watches and his love for Norman Foster

What has been your biggest career challenge to date?

The conversion of Centre Point Tower, one of London’s most iconic buildings.

If you could change anything about the industry, what would it be?

Diminish the male domination quicker than we are doing at the moment. Also, the planning and procurement process: it seems to dilute and weaken all the best design ideas when it should be supporting and encouraging them. But, then again, crude cost-cutting being described as “value-engineering” is a constant irritant – call it what it is!

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