The Directors of Fuse are delighted to announce the of four new Associates each of whom have made an outstanding contribution to the growth of Fuse and the very high design quality of our work. In keeping with the Fuse mission to keep the twin disciplines of architecture and interior design in perfect balance, two of our new Associates are architects and two are interior designers.
David Hall, Craig Russell, Steve Bell and David Eastwood will now be taking on additional responsibilities from resource planning and design reviews to continuing our BIM implementation and maintaining our quality assurance procedures.
Between them, they have over half a century of project experience across a wide range of construction sectors. To find out more, click on the photographs to see further details.
Craig Russell, architect.
Craig spent his first couple of years at Fuse master planning a new business park in Scotland whilst delivering a retail and residential scheme in Urmston for Ask Developments. Craig then led the Fuse team that designed a new 4 storey teaching block for Greenhead College in Huddersfield. He is now working on several mid-sized new build contemporary residential sites.
David Hall, architect
Played in a leading role on the design of Phase One of the Leeds College of Building and the recently completed newbuild VITA Student development on Westgate Road in Newcastle upon Tyne, He is presently leading the team delivering the 650 bedroom VITA Student scheme which is fast approaching completion in York.
Steve Bell, interior designer.
Steve worked on a number of the early Hard Rock projects including the cafes in Florence and Barcelona. More recently, he was project interior designer for the award-winning offices at No.1 Aire Street in Leeds. He is now working on a major project at the University of Hull and leads our work in the private rented sector residential portfolio.
David Eastwood, interior designer.
David has been closely involved in the Hard Rock workload and was lead designer for the cafe in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He also spent nearly 5 years working on the recently completed Victoria Gate Casino in Leeds. He has just started working on substantial new hospitality projects in Malta and the USA.