Get to know us
Bell Phillips was established in 2004 after Tim Bell and Hari Phillips won an international design competition to carry out a significant regeneration project in East London. Since this first £8 million project, the practice has grown to a team of 30, with Melissa Dowler appointed as the third Director in 2017.

We carefully select our team for their passion, intelligence, commitment, and energy. The skills of these individuals, their responsibilities, and the collaborative way they work together make our studio a special, stimulating, and enjoyable place (the office pups help too!). We always welcome applications from talented architects looking to help us create / uplifting places and / build for the future. 

Raising Awareness
We encourage job applications from underrepresented groups to build a business that reflects our society. To avoid bias, we partake in blind recruitment to ensure we are selecting candidates based on merit and against objective criteria that can lead to subconscious discrimination. 

At Bell Phillips, we have an Equality and Inclusion Team that meets monthly to review policy, plan training and CPDs, consider equality and inclusion in our designs, and seek opportunities to provide work experience, mentoring and apprenticeships. We are active members of advocate groups such as the Mayor’s Access and Aspiration Employability Programme and helped form the London Practice Forum Ethical Charter.

View our practice policies

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Rooted in an egalitarian approach, we make space for each employee to take ownership of their role and contribute their vision for the company. We’ve formed groups within our organisation to ensure Bell Phillips is continuously growing and evolving. These groups are: 

+ Social Value
+ Sustainability 
+ BIM
+ Graphical Standards
+ PR and New Business
+ Policy 
+ Technical Design
+ CPD
+ Post Occupancy 
+ Office Manual Updates

Benefits
To better create for the communities we serve, we first start with the care of the people within Bell Phillips.

We offer a variety of benefits to ensure our employee’s health, well-being, and performance are handled with mindfulness. A few of our perks include: 

  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) by Lifeworks

  • Time off between Christmas and New Year

  • Three-day office trip to somewhere of architectural interest (last trips have been to Somerset, Porto, Berlin, and Lyon)

  • Enhanced maternity/paternity leave pay

  • Regular CPDs, external training, paid study leave

  • Bell Phillips Think: A research vehicle within Bell Phillips that provides staff opportunities to pursue a research project to refresh, broaden horizons, and expand ideas and interests.

We always welcome applications from talented architects. We recognise that ethnic minorities are currently underrepresented at Bell Phillips Architects and are therefore taking positive action to address the diversity of our office. We encourage job applications from underrepresented groups in order to build a business that reflects the society in which we live. Please send your CV and portfolio to recruitment@bellphillips.com.