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Architectural Director Derek Buckingham has nearly 25 years experience of
studio design and project management. Having started in 1975 with E J Veale
Associates he worked on many of the significant studio construction projects
of the period including private studios for George Harrison, Ringo Starr,
Mike Oldfield, Chris Squire and Alvin Lee. He was also involved in much
commercial studio development both in the recording and broadcast sectors.
Projects included many local radio stations around the UK: Beacon Radio,
Wolverhampton, Wyvern Radio, Worcester, Signal Radio, Stoke on Trent,
Moray Firth Radio, Inverness, Broadlands Radio, Norwich and Viking Radio,
Hull. Recording studio complexes throughout Europe included: The Mill
Studios, Wood Cottage Studios, West Side Studios in the UK, Sound Push
and Dureco Studios in the Netherlands and Forum and Adriano Celentano’s
Studios in Italy.
In 1985 he joined Architecture practice James Caldwell Associates to
gain experience of significant project involvement in the main stream
of the construction industry. His studio expertise was capitalised upon
by the firm in its association with Discrete Research Group commencing
in 1986. This saw him do much design work on projects for clients
including CBS, the BBC, Swan Yard, Tent Records and Rhinoceros Recording
in Australia. This association became so close that, in 1990, he joined
the design company of the Group, Harris, Grant Associates, as its
Architectural Director, also becoming Architectural Director of the
Group itself.
Work continued on projects world-wide that included studios for the BBC,
Hit Factory (London and New York), Sony Classical (Hamburg and New York),
Sony Music in New York, Yamaha Research, Grand Central in London,
Digimax in Taiwan, Reach Sound in New York, Starstruck in Nashville
and Buffo in Warsaw.
Following the creation of White Mark in 1997, he joined the company
and became its Architectural Director. This has enabled him to further
many of the client relationships developed over many years in the
business and offer a level of service and commitment that was not
possible elsewhere. In this time he has overseen the development of
the CAD based design system used to such advantage by the company.
With its designer centred structure, the system makes extensive use
of networking techniques for electronic design exchange. This
encourages the parallel development of a project along a number of
lines based on common survey information with ownership of each
version remaining with the initiator. The benefits and problems can
thus be objectively assessed and final versions derived by integration.
This has the distinct advantage that design ideas can be fully followed
through by their originators without conflict of ownership limiting
their development. Final drawings are now often emailed to clients
throughout the world with a consequent significant increase in
flexibility and decrease in response time.
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