Tony Kettle RIBA RIAS
Design Principal, Kettle Collective
Tony Kettle is an award winning British Architect probably best known for designing the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland, and the Lakhta Centre in St Petersburg, Europe’s tallest tower at 462m and CTBUH Best Tall Building 2021. The Falkirk Wheel is the world’s only rotating boatlift and was exhibited in the V&A for the 2012 Olympics and is in a fixed exhibit in the Dundee V&A. It has been featured on the UK £50 bank note and in the British Passport.
Tony was educated at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland and went on to join RMJM Architects, where he worked for 25 years to become International Design Principal.
Tony has a particularly interest in Passive Low Energy Design and set up the Kettle Collective Studio in 2012 to focus on Sustainable Thinking and has since been rewarded with two Queens Awards, the most recent presented by King Charles for Sustainability in 2021.
His international experience is extensive and includes many notable projects including the twisting City Palace Evolution Tower in Moscow, the Dubai International Convention Centre in UAE, and the landmark Dewa Solar Innovation Centre in UAE, which was winner of an RSA medal, amongst other awards for architecture and sustainability. Closer to home, Tony was part of the team on the Stirling Prize winning Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh alongside EMBT. Recently he was invited to design the new Renfrew Bridge, an innovative cable stayed opening bridge over the Clyde due to open in 2025.
Following success in multiple new town urban design competitions across KSA and the Middle East, Tony was invited to be a Member of the ARP Advisory Review Panel for Central Riyadh Regeneration Program focused on developing conserving and enhancing the built heritage and looking at revitalising the public realm through new concepts for urban design inspired by historical models.
Tony is passionate about the built environment and about how design directly influences the way we live. He has recently been a guest speaker at conferences around the world in Bangkok, St Petersburg, London, Dubai and has spoken at Harvard University GSD.
Tony is a patron of ‘It’s Good to Give’ a Scottish Charity who support children and their families affected by cancer. For which he designed the ‘Ripple Retreat’ in the Trossachs National Park in Scotland, which opened in 2017.