people

merita oramaa architect

BA (Hons) Dip Arch

Merita Oramaa is a co-director at oramaa lawrence architects. Prior to starting the practice she was an architect at Building Design Partnership (London) and led a number of the practices key student housing projects. She has broad experience ranging from early design stages and conceptual work to site monitoring and coordinating contractors work. Her time at BDP exposed her to a broad scope of the architectural spectrum including master planning, school design, student housing, libraries and residential work. She was project architect for Goodricke College Student Housing for the University of York which received three RIBA awards.

Merita is a Finnish national; she studied architecture in the UK at Kent Institute of Art and Design (KIAD) where she was awarded the Michael Crux travel award and received a commendation in the RIBA President Medals, and later, at London Metropolitan University.

nick lawrence architect

BEng (Hons) BA (Hons) Dip Arch RIBA

Nick Lawrence is a co-director at oramaa lawrence architects. Prior to starting the practice, Nick was an architect at A&Q Partnership and worked on a broad range of projects of various scales under a number of different contract types. He has experience working on both contemporary and listed buildings, among others the various developments at the award-winning Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, London. More recent projects include Phase 2 of the Kidbrooke Estate redevelopment and Digby Road social housing. Nick has maintained his relationship with A&Q Partnership and through this company continues to collaborate with them.

Nick also has experience in competition, winning the AMD Open Architecture Challenge in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Atlantic College competition organised by the RIBA in 2006. He has exhibited work at the RIBA in Portland Place and Islington Library.

Nick’s early education was based on the ideas of Rudolf Steiner and he went on to win a scholarship to attend The United World College of the Atlantic. He later studied Engineering at the University of Bristol and Architecture at London Metropolitan University. He was elected into Chartered Membership of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2009.