Senior/Principal Designer – Landscape Architect, Architect – Freelance

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🕒 March 18

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

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Gillespies

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1962

🏠 Real Estate

🤝 B2B

🏛️ Government

Real Estate • B2B • Government

Gillespies is a landscape architecture and urban design practice that creates masterplans, public realm projects, landscape planning and biophilic design solutions for cities, parks, and private developments worldwide. The firm works with public and private sector clients to restore and enrich natural environments, integrate resilient, nature-based solutions into urban settings, and deliver large-scale projects such as parks, waterfronts and mixed-use masterplans. Gillespies operates studios across the UK and internationally, emphasizing sustainable, people-centered design and environmental stewardship.

📋 Description

• You will play a key role in leading design thinking, supporting project teams, and contributing to the development and delivery of complex projects from concept through to construction. • Leading or supporting design development across concept, planning and technical stages • Producing high-quality drawings, diagrams, visualisations and presentation materials • Guiding assistants and mentoring junior team members • Contributing to client discussions, workshops and design reviews • Supporting project coordination, tender preparation and construction-stage design input • Working across multidisciplinary teams on UK and international projects • Supporting research, precedent analysis and material exploration

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of professional experience in landscape architecture, architecture, or related design fields • Degree and postgraduate qualification in landscape architecture, architecture, or equivalent design discipline • Professional accreditation such as CMLI (or equivalent international qualification) is desirable but not essential • Your portfolio should demonstrate a broad range of work, including: • Conceptual design and sketch development • Detailed technical design and construction-stage output (for external works) • Experience delivering projects through planning, tender or site stages • Work within UK practice context is highly advantageous • Strong proficiency in CAD-based design workflows (e.g. AutoCAD or equivalent) • Excellent working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and 3D design tools such as SketchUp, Revit and BIM • Excellent written and spoken English communication

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance coverage appropriate to freelance design work • Familiarity with industry-standard design tools used in landscape and architectural practice • Access to your own laptop and business licensed core design software