Speakers
Baharash Bagherian Founder and Designer Baharash Bagherian Design Rt Hon. The Viscount Thurso Chair of the IPA Judges Having trained with The Savoy Group in London, Viscount Thurso was appointed managing director of the Savoy Group’s Lancaster 5-star hotel in Paris at the age of 27. He then went on to lead a number of hospitality businesses including Cliveden, which under his leadership become the UK’s highest rated hotel, East Sussex National Golf Course and Champneys. Viscount Thurso has served as a nonexecutive member on a number of public company boards and is chairman of the family company in Caithness. In 2016 he was appointed chair of VisitScotland. He was awarded a ‘Catey’ for services to tourism in 2003 and is a Fellow of The Institute of Hospitality as well as a Master Innholder. Viscount Thurso is also president of the Tourism Society. He served in the House of Lords as a hereditary peer until 1999 and was then elected to the House of Commons as MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross until 2015. Viscount Thurso returned to the House of Lords in 2016 and was made a Privy Councillor in 2014.
Each project in the studio is driven by a process of investigation, experimentation and always asking ‘what if?’ The outcomes of these studies form the basis of the design. Baharash Architecture is working holistically at all scales, designing masterplans, landscapes, buildings and interiors. Baharash Architecture believes that great architecture is more than buildings; it’s about creating sustainable destinations which have a unique ‘sense of place’, where people feel healthy to live in, inspired to work in and want to visit. There is a true sense of entrepreneurial spirit in the studio, all committed to developing innovative and creative solutions that make a positive contribution to our current and future generations.
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