In a period of growth for the practice, we are delighted to welcome two new directors to our leadership team.

Miranda MacLaren has joined us as a director, to lead on residential projects across all scales and typologies and expand Orms’ capacity to deliver projects in these sectors. Miranda’s extensive housing experience includes work across residential, BTR, PBSA and including homeless shelters, affordable housing, specialist need housing, student housing, market and mixed-tenure housing, estate regeneration, senior living and co-living. She is in her second year sitting on the NLA’s housing expert panel, is a client advisor for the RIBA, sits on the Design Review Panel for Harrow and Hounslow council and is Vice Chair for Tower Hamlet’s Quality Review Panel. Robert Bird has joined us as practice director. He’ll be leading on strategy at board level, overseeing the delivery of continuous operational improvement to support our core creative and business objectives. He will also consider vision and values across all activities of the business in line with our B Corp status. He has more than 27 years of experience in practice and project management roles in the creative and architecture industries.