nimtim architects

nimtim are an approachable and vibrant young architecture practice operating across London and beyond. We take a fresh and flexible approach to practice, adapting our service and role to suit differing needs and requirements. We apply our experience as well as deep and creative thought to all of our work and focus on providing simple, elegant and pragmatic solutions. We work with clients in a spirit of collaboration to create unique designs based on their ambitions and requirements and we care about our client's money and time, and work within these parameters to find the most appropriate and effective proposals for every context.

Biography
Tim O'Callaghan
Tim O'Callaghan has been a UK qualified architect since 2008. He studied at Oxford Brookes University, the Bauhaus University in Weimar and the University of Westminster where he was the recipient of the RIBA CLAWSA prize for best design project and the RIBA dissertation prize for his dissertation on CenterParcs. In between this, Tim worked with OMA in Rotterdam as part of the team for the colossal CCTV building in Beijing and on an urban masterplan for an area equivalent to 20% of the Netherlands.

After completing his education, Tim joined Popularchitecture (now Teatum + Teatum) in London working on a number of significant private houses as well as several competitions. Following this, he worked with David Chipperfield Architects in London where he was a member of the competition winning scheme for Perm Opera House in Central Russia. Most recently, Tim was Senior Architect at RCKa and project architect for the TNG Youth Venue in Lewisham (winner of a Civic Trust award, National RIBA award ) which has attracted international recognition and was shortlisted for the 2014 Stirling Prize and Mies van der Rohe prize. He was also project architect for a number of RCKa's most significant projects including Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, Meadow Street Housing in Preston (Winner of Housing Design Award 2011) as well as helping the practice grow in a spectacularly short time to become one of the most recognised young practices in the Europe.

Tim is now director of nimtim architects in London who have already achieved international success with a runners up prize for the competition to design new housing on the island of St Helena as well as securing a number of significant private commissions in London. Teaching is very important to the practice and Tim and after 3 successful years with UCA in Canterbury, he has recently joined the Reading School of Architecture to play a key role in setting up the new school. Tim has also been a guest critic at University of Westminster, Oxford Brookes, Central St Martins and the Royal College of Art.

Nimi Attanayake
Nimi Attanayake studied at the University of Nottingham and the University of Westminster where she focused on urban scale transformative community projects. She qualified as an architect from London Metropolitan University in 2008 and is an RIBA and ARB registered architect. Nimi worked for many years (including many summer holidays) for MPA Architects where she was involved in high-end residential and retail projects including Burberry stores and residential developments in Central London.

Nimi has also worked for some of London's most highly regarded practices including Penoyre & Prasad and Hawkins/Brown where she was a project architect for Corby Cube and other significant developments such as Deptford Wharves. In 2010, Nimi joined Latitude architects where she played a central role in several major projects, most notably 55-73 Duke Street for Grosvener Estates which has recently been shortlisted for the AJ retrofit awards.

Nimi has a keen interest in travel and painting and has travelled (and painted) across South & North America, India, Asia, Europe and most especially her cultural and spiritual home; Sri Lanka. Gardens, planting and open spaces have always strongly featured in Nimi's design work and she is now completing a RHS Diploma in Gardening and Horticulture at Capel Manor College.